Fiesta : The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Vintage Deco
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'This is a hell of dull talk...How about some of that champagne? 'Paris in the twenties- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin (Vintage Deco) by Christopher Isherwood
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Vintage Deco
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all'Goodbye to Berlin is the novella that inspired Cabaret, evoking the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression ...Show more
Jazz by Toni Morrison
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Vintage Deco
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?'Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the i ...Show more
The Great Gatsby (Vintage Deco) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Penguin Classics
Tiffany&Co. edition designed exclusively for Vintage ClassicsWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. ...Show more
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
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Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. A ...Show more
The Ink Dark Moon by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu
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Here is a collection of sexy, brief, fleeting poems about love, lust and longing. They originate from a time in Japanese history where aristocratic women of the Heian court were free to marry and conduct love affairs according to their desires. Education and refinement were so highly valued that the cou ...Show more
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
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This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's own relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as they are evocative and sensual. First published in 1924 to international acclaim when Neruda was just nineteen ...Show more
Poems: 1962-2020 by Louise Gluck
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For the past fifty years, Louise Glück has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as for her development of a particular form: the book-length sequence of poems. This volume brings together the twelve collections Gl ...Show more
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble It is Spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.' Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads ...Show more
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
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An erotic masterpiece of twentieth century fiction - a tale of sensual obsession and bloodlust in eighteenth century Paris. 'An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution' Guardian In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an ...Show more
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-lovi ...Show more