Category Archives: Accessories
100 Artists` Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists
In this one-of-a-kind volume, indispensable for students of art, architecture and film,Alex Danchev presents 100 Artists` Manifestos, each reproduced with an introduction on the author and the associated movement, in Penguin Modern Classics.This remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years is cacophony of voices from such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism,
Essays
The articles collected in George Orwell`s Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century – a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell`s longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes `My Country Right or Left`,
Story of the Eye: By Lord Auch
Bataille`s first novel, published under the pseudonym `Lord Auch`, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, “Story of the
Love in the Time of Cholera
Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart. But now her husband is dead. Finally – after fifty-one years, nine months and four days – Florentino has another chance to declare his
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre`s first published novel, “Nausea” is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life. This “Penguin Modern Classics” edition is translated from the French by Robert Baldick with an introduction by James Wood. “Nausea” is both the
Coming Up for Air
Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back to the peace of his childhood in a small country town. But his return journey to Lower Binfield brings complete disillusionment.
Go Tell it on the Mountain
“Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire – a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!” First published in 1953, Baldwin`s first novel is a short but intense, semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark`s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie includes an introduction by Candia McWilliam in Penguin Modern Classics. Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, unconventional ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy – `the
The Luzhin Defense
Vladimir Nabokov`s early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster Turati,
Hell`s Angels
`A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west …the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn`t quite handle what I was seeing.` Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely contained violence; the Hell`s Angels could paralyse whole towns
The Go-between
When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall. He becomes drawn deeper and deeper into their dangerous game of deceit and desire, until his role brings him
One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest: a Novel
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey`s One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the
The Complete Stories
A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.
Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength
Can you resist everything except temptation? In a hedonistic age full of distractions, it`s hard to possess willpower – or in fact even understand why we should need it. Yet it`s actually the most important factor in achieving success and a happy life, shown to be more significant than money, looks, background or intelligence. This
Guys & Dolls & Other Stories
Slick, upbeat and funny, these stories inspired the popular musical and film Guys and Dolls. `Of all the high players this country ever sees, there is no doubt but that the guy they call the Sky is the highest. He will bet all he has, and nobody can bet any more than this`.
Everland
1913: Dinners, Millet-Bass, and Napps – three men bound not by friendship, but by an intense dependence founded on survival – will be immortalised by their decision to volunteer to scout out a series of uncharted and unknown islands in the Antarctic, a big, indifferent kingdom. 2013: Brix, Jess, and Decker – three researchers with
Atlas Shrugged
“Atlas Shrugged” is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world – and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, “Atlas Shrugged” stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man`s body,
In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann`s: v. 1
Since the original prewar translation, there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. “In Search of Lost Time” is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. As the great story unfolds from
Forty Stories
This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme`s earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.
Dream Story
This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and baffling novella. Dream Story tells how through a simple sexual admission a husband and wife ware driven apart into rival worlds of erotic revenge.
