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Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life.
Guerrilla Warfare by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people' First published in 1961, following the successful Cuban Revolution, this is Che Guevara's handbook for guerrilla war. It covers strategy, tactics, terrain, organization of an army, logistics, field medical treatment, intelligence, propagand ...Show more
Hiroshima by John Hersey
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with his heartrending account of six men and ...Show more
History Of The Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book presents, from the pers ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he ...Show more
Hope by Len Deighton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL'A master of fictional espionage' Daily MailWhen Bernard Samson is woken in the middle of the night and discovers an injured man on his doorstep, he knows it will only bring trouble. It is the start of a dangerous journey to Zurich, rural Poland and the heart of a mystery that has ...Show more
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this honest and stunning novel, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, B ...Show more
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It was the war to end all wars, the global struggle that would finally make the world safe for democracy - at any cost. But one American soldier has paid a price beyond measure. And within the disfigured flesh that was once a vision of youth lives a spirit that cannot accept what the world has become. A ...Show more
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'One of his masterpieces ...without doubt a great novel' Guardian One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled in the extremes ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-four (Popular Penguin - Redacted Cover Edition) by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101. 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'. Hidden away in the Record Depa ...Show more
Nova Express - The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The most ferociously political and prophetic book of the Cut-Up Trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As with The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, William Burroughs dep ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more