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Hafez
I am a Bird from Paradise

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMay I remember always when Your glance in secrecy met mine, And in my face your love was like A visibly reflected sign.From the greatest and most pop…

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Andy Warhol
Beauty

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don't look.'From Warhol's romantic relationships to his thoughts on interio…

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Snorri Sturluson,
The Prose Edda

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Composed in Iceland in the 13^th^ Century, The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature, taking readers on a voyage t…

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Wang Xiaobo
The Maverick Pig

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Razor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo's essays established him as one of China's most popular - and subversive - writers. From the …

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Walter Benjamin
Unpacking My Library

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories.'From intimate musings on his book …

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Jack Kerouac
Tristessa

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: 'a narrative meditation studying…

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Seneca
Why I am a Stoic

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters writt…

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Clarice Lispector
The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' - Colm TóibínA housewife's life is shattered by a sudden epiphany. A simple tale of killing co…

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Roald Dahl
Lamb to the Slaughter

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books No author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His stories - many of which were filmed as Tales of the Unexpected - take us into …

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Mary Gaitskill
Secretary

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books A writer engulfed by a new obsession, an occasional sex-worker, a runaway, a teenager entering the workplace: these four tales of desire and disloca…

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Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLuminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas' works have captivated generations of readers, inspiring artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Igor Strav…

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Hermann Hesse
Strange News from Another Planet

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Of course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality that they intuit..…

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Margaret Cavendish
The Blazing World

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security'In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a vision: there …

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Maurice Leblanc
The Escape of Arsène Lupin

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'When I decide to escape I shall want nobody's assistance.'In this thrilling collection, we meet Arsène Lupin, a brilliant, alluring master of disgu…

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Ota Pavel
How I Came to Know Fish

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman's sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries - sleep and fishing.'Through tender, vivid, …

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Italo Calvino,
Under the Jaguar Sun

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun - into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my th…

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M. R. James
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books There are many great English ghost stories, but they appear flimsy and emotionally spectral compared to the works of M.R. James. This selection give…

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Arthur Schnitzler
A Confirmed Bachelor

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised me…

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Maryse Condé
Tales from the Heart

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.'Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are the intimate, formative st…

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Epictetus
Whatever is Rational is Tolerable

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I must die. But must I die bawling?'What does it mean to live a virtuous life? How can we rise above pain and anguish? In these teachings from Book…

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