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Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
Written during the winter of 1929-30 and his last major work, Apocalypse is Lawrence's radical criticism of the political, religious and social structures that have shaped Western civilization. In his view the perpetual conflict within man, in which emotion, instinct and the senses vie with the intellec ...Show more
Kolyma Tales by Varlan Shalanov
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Category: Classics | Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and p ...Show more
My Childhood by Maxim Gorky; Ronald Wilks (Translator, Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
My Childhood is the autobiography of Maxim Gorky.
Saki: The Complete Saki by Saki
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Category: Classics | Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
The complete works of one of England's greatest Edwardian writers Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although, like so many of his generation, he died tragically young, in action on the Western Front, his ...Show more
Sea And Sardinia by Lawrence D H
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Category: Classics | Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
In January 1921, D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda visited Sardinia. Although the trip lasted only nine days, Lawrence wrote an intriguing account of Sicilian life that not only evokes the place, people, and local customs but is also deeply revealing about the writer himself. Remarkable for its metaphor ...Show more
Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: No Category | Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
We like to think of the old-fashioned American classics as children's books. Just childishness, on our part. The old American art-speech contains an alien quality, which belongs to the American continent and to nowhere else. But, of course, so long as we insist on reading the books as children's tales, ...Show more
The Shadow-Line - A Confession by Joseph Conrad; Jacques Berthoud (Notes by, Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
'A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never felt before or since.'Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his f ...Show more
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