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84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
84, Charing Cross Road with introduction by Anne Bancroft. 'A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with [humankind].'
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?' This special edition of A Clockwork Orangerestores the text of Anthony Burgess' novel as he originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of his teen slang 'Nadsat', pages from the original typescript, explanatory notes, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light o ...Show more
A Descant for Gossips by Thea Astley
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Category: Contemporary | Series: UQP Modern Classics
In this classic story of small-town life, two schoolteachers are drawn to each other by their concern for a lonely young girl. For as long as Vinny Lalor could remember, she had been on the fringe of things - in her family and at school. But as the final term of the year progresses, rumour and malice mo ...Show more
A Glass Of Blessings by Barbara Pym
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Category: Feel Good Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLARE CHAMBERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'The subtlest of her books . . . the sparkle on first acquaintance has been succeeded by the deeper brilliance of established art' PHILIP LARKINWilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, go ...Show more
A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
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Category: Feel Good Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics 547 | Reading Level: very good
Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her husband Rodney, a handsome army major, is slightly balder and fatter than he once was. Wilmet would like to think she has changed rather less. Her interest wanders to the nearby Ang ...Show more
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem "The Waste Land", Evelyn Waugh's "A Handful of Dust" is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World Wars. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray ...Show more
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr, J.L. Carr
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Penelope Fitzgerald - Introduction Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 112 pages | ISBN 014118230X | May 2000 A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beau ...Show more
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
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Category: Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love, or pity, and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fab ...Show more
A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
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Category: Spies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
George Smiley was simply doing a favor for Miss Ailsa Brimley, an old friend and editor of a small newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried reader: "I'm not mad. And I know my husband is trying to kill me." But the letter had arrived too late: its scribe, the wife of an assistant mas ...Show more
A Perfect Spy
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Category: Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unrelia ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing extravagant outfits and playing dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids committment, gripped by the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake.