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Serie: Penguin modern classics
PaperbackEngels9780140184471
29-8-1991
Contains essays that describe what it means to be black in America. This book describes the tragedies that are inflicted by racial segregation and presents a poignant account of the author's first journey to 'the Old Country', the Southern states. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140184495
25-7-1991
Features stories that explore the roots of love, murder and racial conflict. This book unlocks the concepts of history and prejudice and probes beneath the skin to the soul. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141198651
7-6-2012
Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. She spends her time with shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to be pleasant, clean and have nice manners. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140180015
29-7-1993
Brings together various W B Yeats' published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140180435
25-10-1990
Includes four stories that illuminate the author's love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140180978
27-9-1990
A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the increasing sense of isolation that he experiences, the captain crosses the 'shadow-line' between youth and adulthood. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140187816
25-5-1995
Offers a criticism of the political, religious and social structures that have shaped Western civilization. This book presents the author's thoughts on psychology, science, politics, art, God and man, including a protest against Christianity. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140187953
27-7-1995
This classic of economic thought is a scathing critique of American snobbery and wastefulness. Chief among the practices that Veblen so wittily satirizes is "conspicuous consumption", a pattern of behaviour that still flourishes among us. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140187977
29-9-1994
Tish is nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. The two families struggle win justice for Fonny. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141389271
3-3-2016
Revealing that Conrad actually hated sailing and Emily Bronte was so tough she was known as 'The Major', among many other stories of eccentricity, drunkenness and even murder, this book uses unusual angles and peculiar details to illuminate writers' lives in a new way. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141391540
2-8-2012
Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth Anna Boatwright - lives a happy life, in and out of her aunt's houses, loving her little sister Reece and her beautiful young mother. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141391571
2-8-2012
Presents the story of Joseph Shapiro, a disillusioned and aimless man who discovers a purpose to his life through the Jewish faith. This title offers an examination of the nature of faith, the question of identity and the notion of how to lead a good life. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141391588
2-8-2012
Offers an exploration of primitive history. This title portrays an era of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141392035
6-2-2014
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141392219
25-10-2012
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform scientific research on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous Angel of Death: Dr Josef Mengele. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141392288
27-3-2014
After The Second World War, the author was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In this book, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141392851
6-2-2014
Features short stories. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141034386
6-12-2007
In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things are not always what they seem in wartime. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141396804
7-1-2016
A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in the Brazilian outback - spend the night together. The next day they proceed to destroy each other. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141187983
3-11-2005
Berlin before the fall of the Wall is a city divided, yet its ordinary residents find ways to live and survive on both sides. All are, in their different ways, wall jumpers, trying to lose themselves but still trapped wherever they go. Meer