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East of Eden
Häftad, 2000
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
184 kr
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NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES STARRING FLORENCE PUGHThe magnum opus of a giant of American literature, East of Eden is an epic, unforgettable family saga of blood ties and betrayalSet in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the intertwined …
East of Eden
Häftad, 2017
149 kr
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COMING THIS AUTUMN: A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES STARRING FLORENCE PUGH‘The work of a great storyteller’ WASHINGTON POSTCalifornia's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth …
Wretched of the Earth
Av Frantz Fanon
Häftad, 2001
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
125 kr
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'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela DavisWritten at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since, …
Grapes of Wrath
Häftad, 2000
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
149 kr
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'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised …
Ways of Seeing
Av John Berger
Häftad, 2008
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
129 kr
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Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics.'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.''But there is also another sense in …
Hour of the Star
Häftad, 2014
139 kr
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Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries to direct Macabéa's fate but …
Haunting of Hill House
Häftad, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (7)
149 kr
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The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration for writers like Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna TarttAlone in the …
Grapes of Wrath
Häftad, 2017
129 kr
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama, with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman.'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.'Drought and economic depression are …
Giovanni's Room
Häftad, 2007
4,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (12)
139 kr
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Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl PhillipsDavid, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets …
Death of a Salesman
Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Häftad, 2000
139 kr
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Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examination of American life. 'A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away'Willy Loman is on his last legs. Failing at his job, …
Caliban and the Witch
Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Häftad, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
147 kr
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'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomA cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition …
Tokyo Express
Häftad, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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'An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train 'Matsumoto was Japan's Agatha Christie' Laura Hackett, The Sunday Times'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.'In a rocky cove in …
Orientalism
Häftad, 2003
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
145 kr
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The seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, with a preface by the author'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer'Magisterial' Terry EagletonIn this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, …
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Av Franz Kafka
Häftad, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael HofmannKafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of …
Of Mice and Men
Häftad, 2000
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
129 kr
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Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie …
Cold Comfort Farm
Häftad, 2020
149 kr
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday TimesWhen sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort …
Pearl
Häftad, 2014
129 kr
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When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana and their son Coyotito will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed and even violence the pearl arouses in him and …
Hearing Trumpet
Häftad, 2005
2,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
149 kr
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The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, …
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Av Susan Sontag
Häftad, 2009
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
179 kr
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A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin Modern Classics.Against Interpretation was Susan …
Black Skin, White Masks
Av Frantz Fanon
Häftad, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
125 kr
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'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language, in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage, Fanon showed us the internal theatre of racism' Deborah LevyFrantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of …
Things Fall Apart
Häftad, 2001
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
149 kr
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of changeOkonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his …
Eichmann in Jerusalem
A Report on the Banality of Evil
Häftad, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
145 kr
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'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender, New York Review of BooksThe classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpieceHannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. …
My Ántonia
Av Willa Cather
Häftad, 2018
139 kr
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The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American midwest with Cather's strongest heroine at its heartJim and Ántonia meets as children in the wide open plains of Nebraska at the end of the nineteenth century. Jim leaves for college and a career in the east, while …
Pale Fire
Häftad, 2000
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
149 kr
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The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and …
Origins of Totalitarianism
Häftad, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
171 kr
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'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, …
Storm of Steel
Av Ernst Junger
Häftad, 2004
149 kr
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Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics.'As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters. They …
Inspector Imanishi Investigates
Häftad, 2025
149 kr
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'An absolute classic, and a whole new world to explore ... irresistible' Lee Child'Beautiful and melancholic, Inspector Imanishi Investigates is not just an ingenious and elegant mystery, but a fascinating window into 1960s Japan' Paula Hawkins A thrilling crime classic, from the bestselling author …
Our Game
Häftad, 2016
146 kr
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Le Carré's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and dramaThe Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry - dreamer, …
Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Häftad, 2010
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
149 kr
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From the master of spy thrillers, John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by the author and an introduction by William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart.Alec …
Civilization and Its Discontents
Häftad, 2002
117 kr
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In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest, but couldn't …
