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
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage classics
After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly r ...Show more
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
"You're always good on ideas, Tom..."An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but Tom Ripley knows that artist no longer exits.Ripley needs to hide his role in the fraud, and keep his colleague's mouth shut. But not ever ...Show more
The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John Kenneth Galbraith, one of America's foremost economists, follows the incredible economic rise and fall that lead to the great crash of 1929No account of the financial insanity of 1929 has been issued in a form at once so readable, so humorous, and so carefully authenticated as this classic book. J. ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Vintage Classics) by Emily Brontë
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Brontë Ser.
Wuthering Heightsby Emily BrontePerhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness, however, when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy ...Show more
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOODScobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Vintage Classics
Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for- telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextr ...Show more
The Dollmaker by Harriette Simpson Arnow
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A REDISCOVERED AMERICAN CLASSIC. Gertie is the young mother of five children - uneducated, determined, strong. Her only ambition is to own her own small farm in the Kentucky hills where she lives, to become self-sufficient and free. Whenever the struggle to live off the land eases, her inarticulate imag ...Show more
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' - The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' - Daily Telegraph 'He is using you for what you are worth.' Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life - and he's willing to kill for it. Struggling to stay one step ahead ...Show more
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
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Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau (Vintage Classics Sci-Fi range) by H. G. Wells
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
They say that terror is a disease...A shipwrecked man finds himself, after various twists of Fate, on a lonely tropical island. From a locked enclosure the cries of animals in pain can be heard, and there is a stink of chemicals in the air. Bestial faces stare out of the forests and grotesque, misshaped ...Show more
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76 by Michel Foucault
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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