Martin Eden (Penguin American Library)

By Jack London

The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the main very important and unique personality Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is often the tale of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, desires of schooling and literary repute. London, disenchanted with the rewards of his personal good fortune, meant Martin Eden as an assault on individualism and a feedback of ambition; although, a lot of its prestige as a vintage has been conferred through admirers of its formidable protagonist. Andrew Sinclair's wide-ranging creation discusses the clash among London's help of socialism and his robust self-will. Sinclair additionally explores the parallels and divergences among the lifetime of Martin Eden and that of his author, targeting London's psychological depressions and the way they affected his depiction of Eden.

For greater than seventy years, Penguin has been the top writer of vintage literature within the English-speaking global. With greater than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents an international bookshelf of the easiest works all through heritage and throughout genres and disciplines. Readers belief the sequence to supply authoritative texts more advantageous by means of introductions and notes by way of special students and modern authors, in addition to updated translations by means of award-winning translators.

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O Pioneers!

Cather’s sentimental and slightly debatable novel tells the tale of the Bergsons, a relatives of Swedish pioneers that settles for all times within the American prairie. whereas Alexandra, the family members matriarch, is ready to flip the kinfolk farm right into a monetary good fortune, her brother Emil needs to grapple with the tragedy of solace and forbidden love. a unique strangely prior to its time, this proto-feminist paintings touches upon quite a lot of issues, together with love, marriage, temptation, and isolation.

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Edgar Allan Poe : Une vie coupée court

By Peter Ackroyd

Poète maudit, certes Edgar Poe le fut, il en est même devenu l'archétype. Mais, même s'il fut piètre homme daffaires et ne gagna que quelques money pour toute son œuvre, il n’a pas connu que des échecs, loin de là : son poème Le Corbeau en healthy une famous person et il était l’un des journalistes américains les plus connus de son époque. Conscient de son pouvoir en tant que tel, il fut un critique murderer. Mais aussi plaisantin, précurseur d’Orson Welles dans le domaine du canular journalistique autant que de Conan Doyle ou de Jules Verne dans ceux du roman policier et de l. a. science-fiction. Novateur des lettres américaines, il fut reconnu comme tel par certains, même s’il resta incompris par une majorité. Son drame fut sans doute d’avoir été célébré pour ceux de ses écrits qu’il méprisait. Quant à ses échecs amoureux, les a-t-il subis ou suscités ? Sous le scalpel internet et précis de Peter Ackroyd, se dessine le parcours tout en dents de scie d’un personnage extravagant, orphelin charmant, jeune homme athlétique épris de mots, mal aimé ou se croyant tel, très vite gros buveur, bientôt marié à une nymphette phtisique, chaste coureur, dépendant d’une belle-mère hommasse, nécrophile en quête toute sa vie d’une determine féminine exsangue, pour lui le plus beau sujet du monde et qu’il transforme en spectre dans ses contes. Une vie brève mais aux résonances infinies, une biographie qu’on aurait pu titrer « Anatomie d’un most unlikely génie ».

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Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan

By William Hjortsberg

Confident and powerful, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an finished biography of overdue novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, writer of Troutfishing in America and A accomplice basic from tremendous Sur, between many others. whilst Brautigan took his personal lifestyles in September of 1984 his shut acquaintances and community of artists and writers have been devastated although now not fullyyt stunned. To many, Brautigan was once shrouded in enigma, erratic and unpredictable in his conduct and presentation. yet his occupation was once bold, an idea to younger writers like William Hjortsberg attempting to get their begin. Brautigan’s profession wove its method via either the Beat-influenced San Francisco Renaissance within the Fifties and the “Flower strength” hippie move of the Nineteen Sixties; whereas he by no means claimed direct inventive involvement with both interval, Jubilee Hitchhiker additionally delves deeply into the lively occasions during which he lived.

As Hjortsberg courses us via his seek to discover Brautigan as a guy the reader is pulled deeply into the writer’s global. eventually it is a paintings that seeks to attach the Brautigan identified to his lovers with the guy who ended his existence so suddenly in 1984 whereas revealing the shut ties among his writing and the particular occasions of his existence. half historical past, half biography, and half memoir, Jubilee Hitchhiker etches the portrait of a guy destroyed by means of his genius.

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Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down (Penguin Classics)

By John Steinbeck

Two devastating brief novels tailored for the level by means of Steinbeck himself

This Penguin Classics version celebrates Steinbeck’s dramatic diversifications of his strongest brief novels, Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down, that includes a foreword by way of award-winning actor James Earl Jones.

Of Mice and Men represents an scan in shape – as Steinbeck positioned it, “a type of playable novel, written in novel shape yet so scened and set that it may be performed because it stands.” A rarity in American letters, it accomplished outstanding luck as a unique, a Broadway play, and 3 acclaimed films. Of Mice and Men bought the hot York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for top Play in 1937-1938. a few acclaimed actors have interpreted the enduring roles of George and Lennie for degree and display, together with James Earl Jones, John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.

The Moon Is Down uncovers profound, frequently unsettling truths approximately warfare and human nature. It tells the tale of a peaceful city taken via enemy troops, and had a rare impression as Allied propaganda in Nazi-occupied Europe.

This Penguin Classics version of the theatrical variations of Steinbeck’s vintage brief novels is key to actors, playwrights, filmmakers and administrators learning the dramatic paintings of the Nobel Prize profitable writer of The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden.

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Mémoires mortes : Une enquête de Kay Scarpetta

By Patricia Cornwell

" Quel régal de retrouver Scarpetta en texte intégral ! "  Le Nouvel Observateur

 Le livre :
Une romancière à succès qui a fui l’homme qui l. a. harcèle depuis des mois est retrouvée violée et égorgée à Richmond. Ainsi démarre pour Kay Scarpetta, professional légiste, une enquête sur un crime aussi alambiqué qu’étrange. Ses recherches sont perturbées par des témoignages incohérents et des rencontres déplaisantes. À cela s’ajoutent los angeles disparition du dernier manuscrit de los angeles victime et sa mystérieuse relation avec un écrivain renommé. Alors que Scarpetta examine les indices, son enquête, commencée dans un laboratoire au milieu des microscopes et des lasers, se transforme peu à peu en un cauchemar qui finit par être le sien…

L’auteur :
Patricia Cornwell est née à Miami, en Floride. Elle est membre émérite de l’Académie internationale du John Jay university de justice pénale qui concentre ses recherches sur les scènes de crime. Elle a contribué à fonder l’Institut de sciences médico-légales de Virginie. Elle est aussi membre du conseil nationwide de l’hôpital McLean, affilié à Harvard, où elle défend los angeles reason de l. a. recherche en psychiatrie. Son finest roman, Postmortem, remporta dans los angeles même année cinq des plus importants prix distinguant un roman policier. En 2008, Patricia Cornwell a été le most suitable auteur américain à recevoir le prestigieux prix du Galaxy British ebook Award, récompensant le meilleur mystery de l’année pour Registre des morts. Scarpetta, L’instinct du mal, et Havre des morts font partie de ses récents best-sellers internationaux. Elle réside l. a. plupart du temps dans le Massachusetts.

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Tender Buttons: Objects

By Gertrude Stein

First released in 1914, Gertrude Stein's innovative poetic paintings Tender Buttons is a must-read for each severe lover of literature. Delighting within the rhythm of phrases, its first part, "Objects," runs playful linguistic circles round teacups, ribbons, umbrellas, and different quotidian artifacts. provided right here in a lovely small package deal, this new version of "Objects" pairs Stein's avant-garde verse with colourful modern illustrations via indie artwork famous person Lisa Congdon, who illuminates and interrogates the vintage Cubist textual content with visuals as capricious as Stein's personal prose. a party of self sustaining considering outdated and new, this fascinating marriage of picture and textual content is a treasure of arts and letters.

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Lookout Cartridge

By Joseph McElroy

With Lookout Cartridge, Joseph McElroy proven a name as considered one of modern fiction's premier innovators and deft observers into the fissures of recent society. it's a novel of surprising intricacy, soaking up suspense, and the top ambition: to redeem the nice declare of paranoia at the American psyche.

In attempting to work out simply who's so threatened via an blameless piece of cinema verité filmed in collaboration with a chum, Cartwright unearths himself on the middle of a secret stretching from long island and London to Corsica and Stonehenge. With every one new truth he gathers, either the intricacy of the syndicate arrayed opposed to him and what his seek will fee him turn into alarmingly transparent.

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