Produkty z tagiem 'PENGUIN MODERN' - Polska Ksiegarnia Internetowa

Letter from Birmingham Jail [Oprawa Miękka]
Martin Luther King

'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, an

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Confessions of a Mask [Oprawa Miękka]
Yukio Mishima

'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain' A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Se

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Great Expectations [Oprawa Miękka]
Kathy Acker

Pip switches identities, sexes and centuries in this punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original Great Expectations. Both familiar and unfamiliar, our orphaned narrator is transplanted

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The Red Tenda of Bologna [Oprawa Miękka]
John Berger

'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.' A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from

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New York City in 1979 [Oprawa Miękka]
Kathy Acker

'INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD' A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New York's underground, from cult literary icon Kathy Acker Penguin Modern: fifty new

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The Vigilante [Oprawa Miękka]
John Steinbeck

'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence, voyeurism and betrayal in these unforgettable tales

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The Great Hunger [Oprawa Miękka]
Patrick Kavanagh

'I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided . . .' By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poem

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Madame du Deffand and the Idiots [Oprawa Miękka]
Javier Marias

'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.' Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues)

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The Dialogue of Two Snails [Oprawa Miękka]
Federico Garcia Lorca

My heart brims with billows and minnows of shadows and silver Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new tran

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Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? [Oprawa Miękka]
Hans Fallada

'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of

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The Survivor [Oprawa Miękka]
Levi Primo

'Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place' A selection of poetry from the author of If this is a Man and The Periodic Table. Penguin Modern: fifty new books cel

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The Skeleton's Holiday [Oprawa Miękka]
Leonora Carrington

'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.' These dreamlike, carnivalesque fables by one of the leading lig

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The Finger [Oprawa Miękka]
William Burroughs

'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.' A deliberately severed finger, a junky's Christmas miracle an

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Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathch.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Allen Ginsberg

Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber

'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?' Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great i

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The Missing Girl [Oprawa Miękka]
Shirley Jackson

' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." ' Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling

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The Breakthrough [Oprawa Miękka]
Daphne du Maurier

'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so bad.' Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the aut

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The Garden of Forking Paths [Oprawa Miękka]
Jorge Luis Borges

'Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous.' Fantastical tales of mazes, puzzles, lost labyrinths and bookish mysteries, from the unique imagination of a literary m

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The Duke in His Domain [Oprawa Miękka]
Truman Capote

Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, as though he dwelt in spheres of enlightenment where they, to his regret, did not. This mesmerizi

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The End [Oprawa Miękka]
Samuel Beckett

'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn't take much interest in them myself.' From the master of the absurd, th

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The Distance of the Moon [Oprawa Miękka]
Italo Calvino

'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pione

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Leaving the Yellow House [Oprawa Miękka]
Saul Bellow

She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car. At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an e

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The Black Ball [Oprawa Miękka]
Ralph Ellison

'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so bad.' Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the aut

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The Haunted Boy [Oprawa Miękka]
Carson McCullers

His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love. These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our

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The Veiled Woman [Oprawa Miękka]
Anais Nin

'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?' Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are recounted in these four pieces from one of the greatest writer

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The Three Electroknights [Oprawa Miękka]
Stanislaw Lem

'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?' From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventor

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The Legend of the Sleepers [Oprawa Miękka]
Danilo Kis

'For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworld

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Childhood Youth Dependency The Copenhagen Trilogy [Oprawa Miękka]
Tove Ditlevsen

Following one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portr

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Dark Days [Oprawa Miękka]
James Baldwin

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded' Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race,

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Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady [Oprawa Miękka]
Clarice Lispector

'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house' Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature. Penguin Mo

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Africa's Tarnished Name [Oprawa Miękka]
Chinua Achebe

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. H

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