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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: ADULT FICTION | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday- Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed i ...Show more
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller
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Category: ADULT FICTION | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
This play tells the story of Willy Loman, an ageing salesman, who is a failure in both his business and private life. Fired by his firm, ignored by his children, his humiliation ends in suicide.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Category: ADULT FICTION | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His jo ...Show more
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
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Category: YOUNG ADULT FICTION | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lo ...Show more
Number the Stars: Collins Modern Classics by Lois Lowry
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Category: YOUNG ADULT FICTION | Series: Essential Modern Classics Ser.
In Nazi-occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best friend from a terrible fate. Winner of the Newbery Medal, newly reissued in the Essential Modern Classics range. "They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews. They plan to take them a ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: ADULT FICTION | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: ADULT FICTION | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; Otto Frank; Mirjam Pressler; Harry Brockway
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Category: ADULT FICTION | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Annes thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends staye ...Show more
The Harp in the South Trilogy by Ruth Park
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Category: YOUNG ADULT FICTION | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Ruth Park . . . that steady glow at the heart of Australian literature.' Ruth CracknellThree of Ruth Park's best loved books - Missus, The Harp in the Southand Poor Man's Orange- are brought together in this volume, tracing the saga of the Darcy family over thirty years. The story has its beginnings in ...Show more
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
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Category: ADULT FICTION | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Winter is an Earth-like planet with two major differences: conditions are semi artic even at the warmest time of the year, and the inhabitants are all of the same sex. Tucked away in a remote corner of the universe, they have no knowledge of space travel or of life beyond their own world. And when a str ...Show more
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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Category: ADULT FICTION | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver finds 'the Pearl of the World' he believes that his impoverished life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in the church and their son, Coyotito, will go to school. Obsessed by his dream, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
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