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Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Little Black Classic by John Gay
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
O! may thy Virtue guard thee through the RoadsOf Drury's mazy Courts, and dark Abodes,The Harlots guileful Paths, who nightly stand,Where Katherine-street descends into the Strand.
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankn ...Show more
Tropic Of Capricorn by Henry Miller
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, The Tropic o ...Show more
Tyger, Tyger : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 89 by William Blake
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'How can the bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?' A selection of Blake's most haunting verse, including 'The Songs of Innocence and Experience'.
Typhoon : Little Black Classic by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'She's done for...' The crew aboard a ramshackle steamer faces a treacherous storm in this gripping tale, inspired by Conrad's own time at sea. This is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a tast ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Set in Dublin, Ulysses tells the story of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin (16 June 1904). The title of the work references the fact that James Joyce draws heavily on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey, in the work, creating parallels between Bloom and Ulysses (Odysseus), Molly Bloom and Penelope (U ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 'I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year, 'observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thack ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way ...Show more
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, "Vanity of Duluoz" presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack's glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel t ...Show more
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
In time for the 200th anniversary of her birth, a Penguin Hardcover Classics edition of the book many believe to be Charlotte Bront''s crowning achievement With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. ...Show more
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her own complex feelings, first for the ...Show more
Wait Till I'm Dead - Poems Uncollected by Allen Ginsberg
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead. Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 AM Allen Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than fifty years, and many of the poems collected for the first time in this volume were scribbled in letters or sent off to obscure publications ...Show more