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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore; In life and death, a chainless soul, With...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Waking, I cry \"Oh, is this your - buried treasure? The light in the heart.\"' In these exquisite stories from the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine...

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...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Why should I bother to invent things? My life has been far more exciting and wonderful than any fairy-tale' In the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'But how sweet a fruit the 'suppose' must be, that people will sup and sup on it! A juicy fruit, like...

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 -...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'My dear friend, he said, life is strange and strange things happen in life' It is a hot July Sunday in...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys'...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'What does love fear? Limitation.' Johannes stealthily pursues Cordelia through the streets of Copenhagen, and through an intricate, manipulative courtship contrives...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Rabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories - 'The Broken Nest' and...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Fabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity. Inspired by his...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books \"All art,\" Oscar Wilde once announced, \"is quite useless.\" Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Lay down all hope, you that go in by me . . . Through the gates of Hell, past whirling hurricanes,...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books She drew a long, soft breath, as though the paper daffodils between them were almost too sweet to bear Katherine Mansfield...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'The disenchanted, the disadvantaged and the disinherited seem, at times of deep crisis, to summon up some sort of genius that...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books What can you say, when a man asks you to dance with him? I most certainly will not dance with you....

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....

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!' A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'As for me I have one ambition only- to invent stories, very beautiful stories' Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen's...

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,...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . . . In this glittering...

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...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Edgar Allen Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Known as Ireland's Chekhov, Frank O'Connor was a master of the modern short story, with an eye for capturing the spaces...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books This small group of stories by D. H. Lawrence show him in a number of moods. The hope is that in...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so terribly fond of beautiful new clothes that he spent all his...