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O Príncipe Feliz e Outros Contos | The Happy Prince and Other Tales

de Oscar Wilde

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 O Príncipe Feliz e Outros Contos é uma coleção de 1888 de histórias para crianças escrita por Oscar Wilde, onde as histórias transmitem uma apreciação para o exótico e para a beleza. O autor escreveu estas histórias para os próprios filhos e a sua intenção era mostrar, além dos príncipes, gigantes e rouxinóis, como a vida é e deve ser vivida. A beleza poética das histórias resgata a tristeza do tema: cada personagem assume a beleza e a feiura, a riqueza e a miséria humana. Os contos desta edição são: O Príncipe Feliz Artisticamente belo e puro, o conto nos toca, com toda a sua ternura, como uma criança a um adulto. Trata da estátua do Príncipe Feliz deslumbrante, laminada a ouro, com olhos de safira, rubis na espada, erguida pela cidade, no ponto mais alto, que quando vivo era alheio ao mundo exterior e à miséria que este continha. Da coluna, contempla a pobreza do povo. Um Andorinho chega como um hóspede ocasional; comovido pelas lágrimas do Príncipe, cede aos seus pedidos: distribuir aos mais necessitados tudo o que ainda tinha de valor. A Rouxinol e a Rosa Um jovem estudante, fascinado por metafísica, é apaixonado pela filha do seu professor que lhe prometera dançar com ele a noite inteira no baile caso recebesse uma rosa vermelha de presente, mas não tendo uma rosa para lhe presentear, o estudante chora e lamenta o fim do seu amor. Uma Rouxinol, tocada por tão nobre sentimento, decide se sacrificar em troca do derradeiro presente e diante do esplendor do verdadeiro amor. O Gigante Egoísta Quando um Gigante se recusa a liberar o acesso ao seu jardim às crianças, um terrível inverno se abate sobre o local: a geada se recusa a ir embora e a primavera se nega a escalar as paredes do jardim. Mas o Gigante acaba por ser transformado pelo sentimento de um menino especial. Wilde apresenta incríveis lições morais e de cortesia, com um surpreendente final repleto de beleza e sinceridade religiosa. O Amigo Devotado Na história, um jardineiro é um amigo dedicado de um rico moleiro, apesar deste último se aproveitar da amizade desinteressada do primeiro. Após uma série de tarefas que o moleiro solicita ao jardineiro em troca de um velho carrinho de mão que o primeiro queria se desfazer, uma tragédia ocorre envolvendo a relação dos dois, além de um dilema moral que é apresentado aos leitores ao final da história. O Foguete Extraordinário A história mostra a discussão entre fogos de artifício durante a comemoração do casamento dos jovens príncipes. O debate entre as personagens serve de pano de fundo para evidenciar os efeitos do individualismo e da competitividade. E aí está o grande destaque do conto, que de forma sutil, demonstra aos leitores, de forma prática e didática, a necessidade de convivência e coletividade.
Micróbios

de Henrique Manuel Bento Fialho

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 Última hora: era uma vez um ponto final, pelo meio muita coisa aconteceu. Em Micróbios, o ínfimo agiganta-se, contos mínimos multiplicam-se como viroses. Uma história contagia outra e assim sucessivamente até o ponto final dizer que acabou. Não é assim a vida? Humor, sátira, cinismo, o mundo do avesso para desmontar ideias feitas e combater preconceitos, porque a uma escala universal a humanidade inteira não é senão essa agitada actividade de microrganismos afundados num quotidiano que se repete. Um pouco de tudo quanto é mundo cabe neste livro de micro-contos, aforismos, epigramas, greguerías, poemas em prosa saturados de real, a pequena notícia, as estórias de que se faz a História. Alerta Abysmo: os micróbios são determinantes na cultura e na saúde humana. Não é para rir nem para chorar, é para estar com o leitor de um modo diferente.
A Casa das Romãs | A House of Pomegranates

de Oscar Wilde

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 A presente edição traz aos leitores os contos e as ilustrações originais publicados em 1891, contos repletos de análises e parábolas morais para todas as idades e produzidos durante o período mais feliz e menos turbulento da vida de Oscar Wilde. Wilde aborda principalmente um dos seus temas preferidos: os seres humanos e os seus duplos e a imagem nem sempre fiel que que adquire força e vida própria e que passa a existir graças ou apesar daquele que a originou. Quando da sua publicação, alguns críticos julgaram que A Casa das Romãs era muito complexo para as crianças, mas Wilde claramente tinha ambições mais amplas e julgou ser um absurdo que "o vocabulário extremamente limitado à disposição da criança britânica [fosse] o padrão pelo qual a prosa de um artista pudesse ser julgada." As histórias incluídas nesta coleção são os seguintes: O Jovem Rei É a história de um pastor, neto ilegítimo de um rei, que é trazido ao palácio para aguardar a sua coroação. na noite que antecede a este grande momento, ele tem três pesadelos, um para cada elemento de suas vestes (a coroa, o cetro e o manto), mostrando a visão crítica de Oscar Wilde sobre os usos e costumes da sociedade em que vivia. Comovido com o sonho, o jovem rei tem uma inesperada reação durante sua unção como Rei e o conto parte para um também inesperado desfecho. O Aniversário da Infanta É a história de um anão comprado para a diversão da filha do Rei de Espanha. Ele, então, embriagado pelas atenções da Infanta, começa a acreditar que esta o ama e deste momento em diante, o conto narra as desditas deste amor. Oscar Wilde pontua as relações humanas inseridas no relacionamento social com uma incrível sensibilidade e pede a reflexão do leitor para cada momento narrrado. O Pescador e a Sua Alma Neste conto, um jovem pescador encontra uma sereia e deseja ardentemente casar-se com ela, mas, não pode, pois para viver debaixo d'água não pode ter alma. Explorando o universo fantástico, Oscar Wilde fala sobre o Amor e as suas relações antagônicas com a Propriedade, o Conhecimento e até mesmo com as Sensações. É um dos seus contos mais instigantes e que trabalha com um simbolismo que envolve o leitor do começo ao fim. O Filho da Estrela Um menino é encontrado abandonado na mata por um pobre lenhador que o leva para casa. Ele cresce tornando-se belo, mas inútil, cruel e arrogante, acreditando ser um Filho das Estrelas. Achando-se superior às outras crianças exige dedicação e tem prazer em torturar os animais da floresta e os mendigos da cidade. Até que num dia, uma mendiga cansada e com os pés sangrando chega à cidade em busca do filho perdido... a partir deste ponto, Oscar Wilde recheia uma história empolgante com análises e parábolas morais para todas as idades.

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The Penguin Book Of Japanese Short Stories

de Jay Rubin

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 A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami This is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable contemporary works. It includes the most well-known Japanese writers - Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new pieces, from Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to Banana Yoshimoto's 'Bee Honey'. Ranging over myth, horror, love, nature, modern life, a diabolical painting, a cow with a human face and a woman who turns into sugar, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is filled with fear, charm, beauty and comedy. Edited by Jay Rubin with an introduction by Haruki Murakami

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New York City In 1979

de Kathy Acker

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 'INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD' A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New York's underground, from cult literary icon Kathy Acker Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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Men Without Women - Featuring The Short Story That Inspired Oscar-Winning Film Drive My Car

de Haruki Murakami

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 A dazzling Sunday Times bestselling collection of short stories from the beloved internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami.
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Three Japanese Short Stories

de Chiyo Uno, Kafu Nagai e Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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 'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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Investigations Of A Dog

de Franz Kafka

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 If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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Of Dogs And Walls

de Yûko Tsushima

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 'Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.' In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the borders of our lives. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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The Missing Girl

de Shirley Jackson

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 ' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." ' Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of unease. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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Dark Days

de James Baldwin

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 'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded' Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays - Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man's Guilt - blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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The End

de Samuel Beckett

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 'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn't take much interest in them myself.' From the master of the absurd, these two stories of an unnamed vagrant contending with decay and death combine bleakness with the blackest of humour. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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The Vigilante

de John Steinbeck

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 'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence, voyeurism and betrayal in these unforgettable tales of Californian life. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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The Skeleton's Holiday

de Leonora Carrington

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 'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.' These dreamlike, carnivalesque fables by one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement are masterpieces of invention and grand-guignol humour. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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Leaving The Yellow House

de Saul Bellow

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 She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car. At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an elderly and self-destructive dipsomaniac in a Western desert town, who finds herself faced with a final, impossible choice. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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The Custard Heart

de Dorothy Parker

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 'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.' Wise-cracking and heartbreaking, these tales of women on the edge by the legendary wit Dorothy Parker show the darkness beneath the surface of the Jazz Age. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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The Black Ball

de Ralph Ellison

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 'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so bad.' Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the author of Invisible Man. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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Kurupira

de Jorge Maranhão

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 The narrative unfolds from a casual visit by the narrator Jack Tate to an exhibition on baroque painting in a gallery in London, when the adventures of Kurupira, a mythical figure of an Amazon Forest goblin with inverted feet and defender of the forest, begin, who offers himself as squire to the greatest English philosopher of this century, Sir Roger Scruton, and seizes his soul during his stay in Brazil. They fight against the 12 evil dragons that inhabit the vast Brazilian territory, symbols of the corruption of the 12 biggest Western moral values. Sir Roger is part of a successor group of the 12 knights of the legendary Round Table, along with Edmund Burke, Alexis de Tocqueville, T.S. Eliot, G.K. Chesterton, Leo Strauss, Michael Oakeshott, Eric Voegelin, Karl Popper, Mario Ferreira dos Santos, Isaiah Berlin, and Russell Kirk, dedicated to the liberal-conservative cause in a world still dominated by baroque-leftist infidels. This is a timely allegory on the civilizing impasse in the Western world, and its influence on the Latin world, especially on Brazil, as a mediator of the voracity of the Chinese Dragon. Because only Brazil, a country that lives immersed under the most resilient baroqueism, as a culture of torsion and distortion of human reason, knows how to decipher Kurupira’s trails.
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The Walnut Shell

de Luiz Cesar Peres

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 The Walnut Shell is a portrait of the migratory situation of the beginning of the 21st century, told in the first person by the protagonist. It is a novel of profound human sensitivity, shedding a little light on the sad socio-economic-cultural reality which part of the world’s population is forced to confront because of the effects of short-sighted and insensitive policies, leading to the immense suffering of those affected. It is also a love story. Love between people. Love for our unknown fellow human-beings.
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Commander João G - Confessions of an Extremist

de Irene Starland

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 «You have to understand that it was not my intention to become an extremist in the beginning. Like I told you, I just wanted to find my ideal woman, my Baltic Bride. Why Baltic, you ask. Well, because my colleague Carlos, head of another department in my ministry, said that the most beautiful women in the world live in Estonia.»
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The Radiance of the Short Story - Fiction from around the Globe

de Aaron Penn e Maurice A. Lee

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 These 104 stories from the 15th International Conference on the Short Story in English, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2018, represent the vast diversity this conference series has grown to represent. From its humble but ambitious beginnings we have grown to include writers and scholars from every continent and over 40 countries. This is truly a global anthology of short stories including both established authors and aspiring writers. However, none of this would have been possible without the incredible support of the writers and scholars themselves. They have worked with me and the various conference co-directors and committees in finding both the time and resources to participate in this conference since 1988. We are truly humbled by the generosity, the dedication, and the professionalism that all participants have displayed throughout these thirty years. It is to them that we both owe and dedicate this anthology. We hope you enjoy reading this text as much as we have enjoyed putting together both the International Conference on the Short Story in English over the years and this 2018 anthology.
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Lance

de Vladimir Nabokov

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 'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories--The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance--the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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The Haunted Boy

de Carson McCullers

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 His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love. These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our search for happiness and understanding. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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The Breakthrough

de Daphne Du Maurier

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 Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of life if the promise of fulfilment lies elsewhere? On the windswept coast of rural Suffolk, a deranged scientist attempts to extract the essence of life itself. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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