Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
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Mysteries
$18.00 Add to cartThe first complete English translation of the Nobel Prize-winner’s literary masterpiece
A Penguin Classic
Mysteries is the story of Johan Nilsen Nagel, a mysterious stranger who suddenly turns up in a- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Hamsun, Knut
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0141186186
- Language: English
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
$17.00 Add to cart“Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good, but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever.”
Anita Loos first published the diaries of the gold-digging blonde Lorelei Lee in the flapper day- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Loos, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0141180692
- Language: English
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Sister Carrie
$16.00 Read more“When a girl leaves home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.” … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Dreiser, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140188282
- Language: English
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A Russian Journal
$17.00 Add to cartSteinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.
A Penguin Classic Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0141180196
- Language: English
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The Bell
$16.00 Add to cartA motley assortment of characters seek peace and salvation in this early masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped o- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Murdoch, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0141186690
- Language: English
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The Long Valley
$17.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize wi- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140187456
- Language: English
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Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories
$16.00 Add to cartBy turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Blackwood, Algernon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 27 2002
- ISBN10: 0142180157
- Language: English
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Of Human Bondage
$14.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
“It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham,”- Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
- Author: Maugham, W. Somerset
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: March 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140185224
- Language: English
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We
$17.00 Add to cartThe exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell’s 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
- Author: Zamyatin, Yevgeny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0140185852
- Language: English
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The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories
$18.00 Add to cartA definitive edition of stories by the master of supernatural fiction
Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chief- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Lovecraft, H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 1, 2001
- ISBN10: 0142180033
- Language: English
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Winesburg, Ohio
$10.00 Add to cartGeorge Willard is a young reporter on the Winesburg Eagle to whom, one by one, the inhabitants of Winesburg, Ohio, confide their hopes, their dreams, and their fears. This town of friendly but solitar… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
- Author: Anderson, Sherwood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 1, 1992
- ISBN10: 0140186557
- Language: English
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
$18.00 Add to cartA definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror
“I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest pr- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Lovecraft, H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: 1-Oct-99
- ISBN10: 0141182342
- Language: English
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Finnegans Wake
$25.00 Add to cartHaving done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses, James Joyce set himself even greater challenges for his next book — the night.
“A nocturnal state…That is what I want to convey
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0141181265
- Language: English
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories
$10.00 Add to cartA bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London’s most profound and moving literary works
The Call of the Wild, London’s elemental masterpie- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01, 1993
- ISBN10: 0140186514
- Language: English
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Dubliners
$12.00 Add to cartA definitive edition of perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language
James Joyce’s Dubliners is a vivid and unflinching portrait of “dear dirty Dublin” at the turn of the twenti- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0140186476
- Language: English
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Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
$15.00 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream
A Penguin Classic Since it was first performed in 1949, Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the tragic shortc- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Miller, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 1998
- ISBN10: 141180978
- Language: English
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East of Eden
$20.00 Add to cartA masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors
A Penguin Classic In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,- Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140186395
- Language: English
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Hunger
$17.00 Add to cartA modernist masterpiece: the Nobel Prize winner’s first and most important novel
A Penguin Classic First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gr- Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
- Author: Hamsun, Knut
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 0141180641
- Language: English
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The Sea, the Sea: Booker Prize Winner
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the Booker Prize–a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England’s theatrical set, retires from glittering Lond- Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
- Author: Murdoch, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 01, 2001
- ISBN10: 014118616X
- Language: English
