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Capital: Volume III by Karl Marx, David Bach
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
It is in this third volume that Marx sets out his central thesis that "the basic laws of motion of the capitalist mode of production lead to explosive crises and its ultimate collapse". Here we find not only a sustained economic and social description of capitalism as a system and the bourgeoisie as a c ...Show more
Captain Cook : The Seaman's Seaman by Alan Villiers
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics S.
James Cook began his seafaring career in the 'coal cats' of the North Sea trade. He served in the Royal Navy, playing a major part in the capture of Quebec during the Seven Year's war. Appointed to HMS Endeavour - a collier bark - he led an expedition to Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand and Batavia. His s ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday- Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed i ...Show more
Charity by Len Deighton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The final novel featuring Bernard Samson, one of Deighton's most enduring characters, who must return to Berlin for one last caseBernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY.Bernard continues to chip away at the mystery of his sister-in-law Tess ...Show more
Child of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A terrific novel' Angela Carter Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with ...Show more
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and, the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic. These stories are woven together in a single tale of mayhem and chaos. In the first novel of the trilo ...Show more
City Of God by St Augustine
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and "City of God" is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of R ...Show more
Civilization & Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual.
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damn ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Fa ...Show more
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
This is Marx and Engel's landmark treatise - in a graphic deluxe edition. One of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated, "The Communist Manifesto" is a revolutionary summons to the working class - an incisive account of a new theory of communism that would be brought about ...Show more
Confessions by St Augustine; R S Pine-Coffin (Translated by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Augustine's Confessions might be one of the most profound Christian testimonies ever recorded. Not necessarily because Augustine led an unusual life or faced intriguing circumstances which had to be overcome; because, in reality, the actual events of his life were relatively less than extraordinary. Aug ...Show more