The Death of Ivan Ilyich: New Translation: Newly Translated and Annotated - Also included The Devil, another celebrated novella by Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Literature
The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he is soon to die. Ivan Ilyich ...Show more
Spy in the House of Love Pink Popular Penguin Edition by Anais Nin
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Category: Literature | Series: Pink Popular Penguin
Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Weaving a sensual web of deceit as she plays dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids commitment, gripped by the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake. In A Spy in ...Show more
Mrs Rosie and the Priest: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #1 by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
Bawdy tales of pimps, cuckolds, lovers and clever women from the fourteenth-century Florentine masterpieceThe Decameron.
Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #75 by Ivan Turgenev
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Category: Literature
"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ...you promised me ...you told me..." Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he meets there.
Trimalchio's Feast : Little Black Classic by Petronius
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Category: Literature | Series: Little Black Classics 21
'I blush to say what happened next.' A satirical portrait of a drunken, orgiastic Roman banquet, hosted by the grossly ostentatious Trimalchio. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with ...Show more
O Cruel Alexis: Little Black Classics by Virgil
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Category: Literature
'But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas' scream, Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the burning sun.' Virgil's lyrical, wistful and often witty pastoral poems.
DROPKICKromance by Cyrus Parker; DROPKICKpoet
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Category: Literature
The first half of DROPKICKromance focuses on a toxic, long-distance relationship the author was involved in for several years, while the second half focuses on his current relationship with poet Amanda Lovelace, who penned a beautiful foreword for the book. Ultimately, the collection tells about a profo ...Show more
Printer's Error - An Irreverent History of Books by Rebecca Romney; J. P. Romney
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Category: Literature
Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed as one of the highest achievements of human innovation. But the march of progress hasn't been smooth; downright bizarre is more like it. Printer's Error chronicles some of the strangest and most humorous episodes in the histo ...Show more
Books That Saved My Life - Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure by Michael McGirr
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Category: Literature
Here are forty texts to read at some stage in your life: forty texts that can enrich you in all manner of ways. Some are recent, like Harry Potter; some ancient, like Homer and Lao Tzu. There are memoirs (Nelson Mandela), poetry (Les Murray) and many of the world's great novels, from George Eliot's Midd ...Show more
Murder for Pleasure - The Life and Times of the Detective Story by Howard Haycraft
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Category: Literature
"Genuinely fascinating reading."--The New York Times Book Review "Diverting and patently authoritative."--The New Yorker "Grand and fascinating ... a history, a compendium and a critical study all in one, and all first rate."--Rex Stout "A landmark ... a brilliant study written with charm and authority. ...Show more