Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
$21.00 Add to cartMcTeague is the story of a poor dentist scraping by in San Francisco at the end of the 19th century, and his wife Trina, whose $5,000 lottery winning sets in motion a shocking chain of events. Few wor… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Norris, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140187693
- Language: English
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The Naked Civil Servant
$17.00 Add to cartA comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s
In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement–it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courag- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Crisp, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0141180536
- Language: English
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Three Lives
$22.00 Add to cartGertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140181849
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$18.00 Add to cartAn acclaimed translation of the best work of the passionate Russian poet
An admired contemporary of Rilke, Akhmatova, and Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva was a witness to the political turmoil and the so- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Tsvetaeva, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140187596
- Language: English
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Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
$20.00 Add to cartThe adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed “the lost generation”, are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Cr… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
- Author: Cowley, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140187766
- Language: English
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Early Poems
$18.00 Add to cartBeloved American poet Robert Frost’s first three books, in one collection
This volume presents Frost’s first three books, masterful and innovative collections that contain some of his best-known poems- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Frost, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014118017X
- Language: English
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Early Poems
$17.00 Add to cartMillay’s first three books of lyrics and sonnets are collected here: Renascence, Second April, and A Few Figs from Thistles. With a balanced and appreciative introduction and useful annotations, this
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Millay, Edna St Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0141180544
- Language: English
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The Return of the Soldier
$14.00 Add to cartWriting her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also e… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: West, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014118065X
- Language: English
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The Confusions of Young Torless
$15.00 Add to cartAt a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four young cadets –Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini–rift even further away from their school- f… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Musil, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0142180009
- Language: English
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The Riders of the Purple Sage
$18.00 Add to cartA master of narrative momentum and suspense, Zane Grey sweeps readers into his stories and makes them feel that things are out of control, that boundaries are being burst.
In Riders of the Purple Sage- Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
- Author: Grey, Zane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140184406
- Language: English
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Babbitt
$20.00 Add to cartThe masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis
A Penguin Classic George F. Babbitt, a conniving, prosperous real estate man from Zenith, Ohio, revels in his popularity, his success, and, especi- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140189025
- Language: English
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The Beautiful and Damned
$18.00 Add to cart“We know the old adage about judging books by their covers, but how could you not when the covers are as lovely as these?” —Vogue (U.K.)
The jacket design by Coralie Bickford-Smith reflects the elegan
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0141180870
- Language: English
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Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
$13.00 Add to cartA bold translation of Nobel Prize-winner Herman Hesse’s most inspirational and beloved work, which was nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
A Penguin Classi- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0141181230
- Language: English
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The Lime Twig
$28.00 Add to cartThree early novels by John Hawkes
This volume brings together three early novels by John Hawkes. The Lime Twig is set in the underworld of postwar London; Second Skin is a tale of suicide and new life- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Hawkes, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140189823
- Language: English
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Studs Lonigan
$25.00 Add to cartCollected here in one volume is James T. Farrell’s renowned trilogy of the youth, early manhood, and death of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day. In thi… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Farrell, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0141186739
- Language: English
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Fifth Business
$17.00 Read moreThe first book in Robertson Davies’s acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link
Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchend- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Davies, Robertson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 141186151
- Language: English
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The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism and Other Writings
$22.00 Read moreIn The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Weber, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0140439218
- Language: English
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Loser Takes All
$17.00 Add to cartBertram had no belief in luck. He was not superstitious. A conspicuously unsuccessful assistant accountant, he was planning to get married for the second time. Quite quietly: St Luke’s, Maida Hill, an… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Greene, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: May 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0140185429
- Language: English
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This Side of Paradise
$18.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1920, This Side of Paradise marks the beginning of the career of one of the greatest writers of the first half of the twentieth century. In this remarkable achievement, F. Scott Fit… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140189769
- Language: English
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Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn’s Papers
$17.00 Add to cartThe Nobel Prize winner’s lyrical and disturbing portrait of love and the dark recesses of the human psyche
A Penguin Classic
A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn roa- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Hamsun, Knut
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0141180676
- Language: English
