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The Beautiful And Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and the Damned" includes an introduction by Geoff Dyer in "Penguin Modern Classics". Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age gl ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: Poetry and Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerv ...Show more
The Harp in the South Trilogy by Ruth Park
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Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Ruth Park . . . that steady glow at the heart of Australian literature.' Ruth CracknellThree of Ruth Park's best loved books - Missus, The Harp in the Southand Poor Man's Orange- are brought together in this volume, tracing the saga of the Darcy family over thirty years. The story has its beginnings in ...Show more
The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag
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Category: International Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag's novel is an exquisitely detailed picture of ...Show more
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and "vile bodies" in every kind of capricious escapade in this story. The characters are an assortment of those inhabiting the social domain that lies between Park Lane and Bond Street.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
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Category: International Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more