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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Crime and punishment is probably Dostoevsky's most read and known novel and one of the most famous literary works of all time. Published in installments in 1866 in the journal «Russkij vestnik» («The Russian Messenger»), it is the story of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, which the author describes in a l ...Show more
Czeslaw Milosz: Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004 by Czeslaw Milosz
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the most beautiful and powerful of Milosz's poems from across his writing life. This selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life. In verses such as 'Cafe' he considers the upheaval, revolutions and two world wars that he had witn ...Show more
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortune ...Show more
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson's scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story "The Lottery" in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickl ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, "David Copperfield" is edited with an introduction and notes by Jeremy Tambling in "Penguin Classics". "David Copperfield" is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhapp ...Show more
Day of the Oprichnik by Vladmir Sorokin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Moscow 2028- Andrei Danilovich Komiaga, oprichnik, member of the czar's inner circle of trusted courtiers, rouses himself from a drunken stupor and prepares for another day of debauchery, violence, terror and beauty. In this New Russia, futuristic technology combine with the draconian world of Ivan the ...Show more
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Nikolay Gogol
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nikolai Gogol's 'epic poem in prose', "Dead Souls" is a damning indictment of a corrupt society, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Robert A. Maguire in "Penguin Classics". Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landow ...Show more
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Two French priests, friends since childhood, are sent to the newly created diocese of New Mexico. Life there is hard and frequently dangerous. Journeys between parishes are beset by the perils of bandits and storms. The people do not always want to hear the priests' message. But through their many years ...Show more
Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning.
Demian by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Demian is a coming-of-age story that follows a young boy's maturation as he grapples with good and evil, lightness and darkness, and forges alternatives to the ever-present corruption and suffering that he sees all around him. Crucial to this development are his relationships with a series of older ment ...Show more
Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen; Anon
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tove is only twenty, but she's already famous, a published poet and wife of a much older literary editor. Her path in life seems set, but she has no idea of the struggles that lie ahead - love affairs, an unwanted pregnancy, physical pain and crippling opioid addiction. As the years go by, the central t ...Show more
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Thomas Hardy
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Hardy described "Desperate Remedies" as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes ...Show more