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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Category: Classics | 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
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
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Category: Politics | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. ...Show more
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson by Hunter S. Thompson
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'It would not do to be found in the desert under these circumstances: firing wildly into the cactus from a car full of drugs'. "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone" showcases the evolution of the writer of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Hell's Angels", through his work at the magazine that he help ...Show more
Giovanni's Room (Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
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Category: Contemporary 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
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west ...the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing.' Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely contained violence; the Hell's Angels could paralyse ...Show more
Hiroshima by John Hersey
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with his heartrending account of six men and ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. It also offers a personal background to the subtexts of his later novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's experiences include bei ...Show more
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
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Category: Miltary General | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Perhaps the best book to emerge from the Vietnam War, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a fascinating insight into the lives of the soldiers caught in the conflict. First published in 1973, this intensely personal novel about one foot soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam established Tim O'Brien's reputation as ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
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Category: True Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those i ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the imp ...Show more
Joan Makes History by Kate Grenville
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Category: No Category | Series: UQP Modern Classics Ser.
This is Australia's past as you won't read it in any history book. Joan pops up in all over famous moments and gives her irreverent female version of them. She remakes history in her own image and asks: who gets written into history, who gets written out, and why?