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The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: James Bond 007
'Mister, there's something quite extra about the smell of death. Care to try it?' After a year missing in action, Bond is back ...brainwashed by the KGB and on a mission to assassinate M. To prove his worth to the Service, he must hunt down and eliminate his fiercest opponent yet: "Pistols" Scaramanga - ...Show more
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald (tr from German Michael Hulse)
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Category: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
At first "The Emigrants" appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigres in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss. Written with a bone-dry sen ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Penguin Modern Classics) by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Vintage 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
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes by Roland BARTHES
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Category: Vintage Classics
The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician. This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. As idiosyncratic as its author, Barthes plays both commentator and subject to reveal his tastes, habits, passions and regre ...Show more
Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli - Peter Constantine (Translator)
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Category: Vintage Classics
" It is far safer to be feared than loved Machiavelli made his name notorious for centuries with The Prince, his clever and cynical work about power relationships.The key themes of this influential, and ever timely, writer are that adaptability is the key to success and that effective leadership is some ...Show more
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The Savvas Learning Company Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and more!
Secret Agent (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Vintage Classics
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODEN London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, who live in fear of the terrorists in their midst. One such terrorist is Verloc. He is the secret a ...Show more
Society Must be Defended by Foucault, Michel
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Society Must Be Defended is taken from a series of lectures given by Foucault at the College de France in 1975-76. Using war to analyse power relations, he contended that politics is ultimately a continuation of battlefield violence, and that ingrained ideas of sovereignty and individual rights are atte ...Show more
Power by Foucault, Michel
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This book covers the topics Foucault helped make the core agenda of Western political culture - medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and sexuality - emphasising Foucault's practical concern with discrimination, coercion and exclusion in human society.
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native So ...Show more
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
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Category: Vintage Classics | 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
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time st ...Show more