Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan
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Category: Penguin Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Sylish, shimmering and amoral, Sagan's tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera was her masterpiece, published when she was just eighteen. However, this frank and explicit novella was considered too daring for 1950s Britain, and sexual scenes were removed for the English publication. Now t ...Show more
History Of The Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
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'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book presents, from the pers ...Show more
An American Dream by Norman Mailer
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As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
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The Trial (original German title: Der Process,later Der Prozess, Der Proceß and Der Prozeß) is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of ...Show more
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
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Malcolm X's blazing, legendary autobiography, completed shortly before his assassination in 1965, depicts a remarkable life: a child born into rage and despair, who turned to street-hustling and cocaine in the Harlem ghetto, followed by prison, where he converted to the Black Muslims and honed the energ ...Show more
Asylums - Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman
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Category: Penguin Modern Classics
Asylums presents four interlinked essays that explore life in the 'total institutions': the closed systems of prisons, boarding schools, nursing homes and, most importantly, mental institutions. Focusing on the relationship between an inmate and the institution that contains them, Goffman unpicks how li ...Show more
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
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Category: Penguin Modern Classics
Acclaimed on first publication and today considered one of the defining works of the sociology, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life is Erving Goffman's extraordinary analysis of the structure of our social interactions.Blurring the line between workaday life and theatrical performance, Goffman ...Show more
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
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Category: Penguin Modern Classics
'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender, New York Review of Books The classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpiece Hannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. This ...Show more
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman
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Category: Penguin Modern Classics
In this groundbreaking work, acclaimed sociologist Erving Goffman examines how society treats those who it considers abnormal. Forced to adjust their social identities from situation to situation, Goffman analyses the variety of strategies that stigmatised individuals deploy to deal with the rejection o ...Show more
I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston
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Category: Penguin Modern Classics
Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from the great 'art-historical odd man out'. "Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light". How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with ...Show more
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
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Category: Penguin Modern Classics
With a Foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang and an Afterword by the author'She fought them with her head and her teeth while the restraints were being tied, trying, doglike, to bite herself'Sixteen-year-old Deborah's identity is shattering, as she retreats further and further from the 'normal' world into her im ...Show more
Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Penguin Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece- a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs. The Osugi family have come to a realisation. Each of them hails from a different planet. Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. Already seen as oddballs in their sm ...Show more