This box set of the 50 books in the new Penguin Modern series celebrates the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics list and its iconic authors. Including avant-garde essays, radical polemics, newly translated poetry and great fiction, here are brilliant and diverse voices from across the globe. Ground-breaking and original in their day, their words still have the power to move, challenge and inspire.
YUKIO MISHIMA: Star
ITALO CALVINO: The distance of the Moon
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: The Finger
TRUMAN CAPOTE: The Duke in His Domain
JAMES BALDWIN: Dark Days
ALBERT CAMUS: Create Dangerously
BETTY FRIEDAN: The Problem that Has No Name
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: Death the Barber
HANS FALLADA: Why Do You Wear A Cheap Watch?
ANDY WARHOL: Fame
CYPRIAN EKWENSI: Glittering City
JACK KEROUAC: Piers of the Homeless Night
LEONORA CARRINGTON: The Skeleton’s Holiday
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA: The Dialogue of Two Snails
RALPH ELLISON: The Black Ball
ALLEN GINSBERG: Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber
DAPHNE DU MAURIER: The Breakthrough
WENDELL BERRY: Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
FRANZ KAFKA: Investigations of a Dog
RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI: An Advertisement for Toothpaste
JEAN RHYS: Till September Petronella
CLARICE LISPECTOR: Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady
SHIRLEY JACKSON: The Missing Girl
PRIMO LEVI: The Survivor
PATRICK KAVANAGH: The Great Hunger
STANISLAV LEM: The Three Electroknights
DANILO KIŠ: The Legend of the Sleepers
CARSON MCCULLERS: The Haunted Boy
JAVIER MARIAS: Madame du Deffand and the Idiots
VLADIMIR NABOKOV: Lance
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: Letter from Birmingham Jail
GEORGE ORWELL: Notes on Nationalism
ANAIS NIN: The Veiled Woman
FERNANDO PESSOA: I Have More Souls Than One
ITALO CALVINO: The distance of the Moon
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: The Finger
TRUMAN CAPOTE: The Duke in His Domain
JAMES BALDWIN: Dark Days
ALBERT CAMUS: Create Dangerously
BETTY FRIEDAN: The Problem that Has No Name
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: Death the Barber
HANS FALLADA: Why Do You Wear A Cheap Watch?
ANDY WARHOL: Fame
CYPRIAN EKWENSI: Glittering City
JACK KEROUAC: Piers of the Homeless Night
LEONORA CARRINGTON: The Skeleton’s Holiday
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA: The Dialogue of Two Snails
RALPH ELLISON: The Black Ball
ALLEN GINSBERG: Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber
DAPHNE DU MAURIER: The Breakthrough
WENDELL BERRY: Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
FRANZ KAFKA: Investigations of a Dog
RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI: An Advertisement for Toothpaste
JEAN RHYS: Till September Petronella
CLARICE LISPECTOR: Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady
SHIRLEY JACKSON: The Missing Girl
PRIMO LEVI: The Survivor
PATRICK KAVANAGH: The Great Hunger
STANISLAV LEM: The Three Electroknights
DANILO KIŠ: The Legend of the Sleepers
CARSON MCCULLERS: The Haunted Boy
JAVIER MARIAS: Madame du Deffand and the Idiots
VLADIMIR NABOKOV: Lance
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: Letter from Birmingham Jail
GEORGE ORWELL: Notes on Nationalism
ANAIS NIN: The Veiled Woman
FERNANDO PESSOA: I Have More Souls Than One
DOROTHY PARKER: The Custard Heart
GEORGES SIMENON: Letter to My Mother
AUDRE LORDE: The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
SUSAN SONTAG: Notes on Camp
FRANCOISE SAGAN: The Gigolo
JOHN BERGER: The Red Tenda of Bologna
SAUL BELLOW: Leaving the Yellow House
JORGE LUIS BORGES: The Garden of Forking Paths
KATHY ACKER: New York City in 1979
GAZDANOV & OTHERS: Four Russian Short Stories
RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA & OTHERS: Three Japanese Short Stories
CHINUA ACHEBE: Africa’s Tarnished Name
SAMUEL BECKETT: The End
JOHN STEINBECK: The Vigilante
YUKO TSUSHIMA: Of Dogs and Wal
AUDRE LORDE: The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
SUSAN SONTAG: Notes on Camp
FRANCOISE SAGAN: The Gigolo
JOHN BERGER: The Red Tenda of Bologna
SAUL BELLOW: Leaving the Yellow House
JORGE LUIS BORGES: The Garden of Forking Paths
KATHY ACKER: New York City in 1979
GAZDANOV & OTHERS: Four Russian Short Stories
RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA & OTHERS: Three Japanese Short Stories
CHINUA ACHEBE: Africa’s Tarnished Name
SAMUEL BECKETT: The End
JOHN STEINBECK: The Vigilante
YUKO TSUSHIMA: Of Dogs and Wal
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