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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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Lance [Oprawa Miękka]
Vladimir Nabokov

'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories--The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance--the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the rea

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Create Dangerously [Oprawa Miękka]
Albert Camus

'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompani

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Investigations of a Dog [Oprawa Miękka]
Franz Kafka

'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a c

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An Advertisement for Toothpaste [Oprawa Miękka]
Ryszard Kapuscinski

'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing' The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War Poland Penguin Modern:

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I Have More Souls Than One [Oprawa Miękka]
Fernando Pessoa

'But no, she's abstract, is a bird Of sound in the air of air soaring, And her soul sings unencumbered Because the song's what makes her sing.' Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct

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Food [Oprawa Miękka]
Gertrude Stein

Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of every

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Four Russian Short Stories [Oprawa Miękka]

' "Another hour gone. But I'm not afraid. There's only one thing I regret: that I've lived for so many years without knowing where human happiness is to be found" ' In these stories, four writers

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Letter to My Mother [Oprawa Miękka]
Georges Simenon

'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in

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Notes on Camp [Oprawa Miękka]
Susan Sontag

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susa

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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer [Oprawa Miękka]
Berry Wendell

'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can' The great American poet, novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly. Pengu

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The Cracked Looking-Glass [Oprawa Miękka]
Katherine Anne Porter

'She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere' A passionate, unfulfilled woman considers her life and her marriage in this moving novella by one of America's fi

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The Gigolo [Oprawa Miękka]
Francoise Sagan

'The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool, make love, create' A middle-aged woman breaks with her handsome young lover; a placid husband i

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Death the Barber [Oprawa Miękka]
William Carlos Williams

'The alphabet of the trees is fading in the song of the leaves' Filled with bright, unforgettable images, the deceptively simple work of William Carlos Williams revolutionized American verse,

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Glittering City [Oprawa Miękka]
Cyprian Ekwensi

Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins stories and breaks hearts in this rollicking story set in the 'sensational city' of 1960s Lagos. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering

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Till September Petronella [Oprawa Miękka]
Jean Rhys

'I knew he was imagining a really lovely girl - all curves, curls, heart and hidden claws' In stories that span the course of a lifetime - from childhood in the Caribbean to adolescent modelling i

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Notes on Nationalism [Oprawa Miękka]
George Orwell

'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs' Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote abou

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Three Japanese Short Stories [Oprawa Miękka]

'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply maca

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The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Audre Lorde

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light. Penguin Modern: fifty new

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Piers of the Homeless Night [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...' Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation. Penguin Modern

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The Problem that Has No Name [Oprawa Miękka]
Betty Friedan

'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky she is to be a woman?' The pioneering Betty Friedan here identifies the strange problem plaguing A

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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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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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