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1) The uncanny
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The groundbreaking works that comprise The Uncanny present some of his most influential explorations of the mind. In these pieces Freud investigates the vivid but seemingly trivial childhood memories that often "screen" deeply uncomfortable desires; the links between literature and daydreaming; and our intensely mixed feelings about things we experience as...
3) Oblomov
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of Russia's aristocracy, lacks the willpower and self-confidence to participate in the real world, he risks losing the love of his life.
4) The guide
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Recently released from prison and living in an abandoned temple, Raju is mistaken for a holy man and decides to play the part.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
City of glass: A writer of a detective stories becomes embroiled in a complex and puzzling series of events, beginning with a call from a stranger in the middle of the night asking for the author.
Ghosts: Introduces Blue, a private dectective hired to watch a man named Black, who, as he becomes intermeshed into a haunting and claustrophobic game of hide-and-seek is lured into the very trap he created.
The locked room: The nameless hero journeys...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"The poor and innocent have nothing to fear from him; often they profit from his spontaneous generosity. The rich and powerful, and the detective who tries to spoil his fun, however, must beware. They are the target of Lupin's mischief and tomfoolery. A masterful thief turned detective, his plans frequently evolve into elaborate plots. These stories - the best of the Lupin series - are outrageous, melodramatic, and literate, and they sparkle with...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he investigated the flip side of economic self-interest: the interest of the greater good. Smith's classic work advances ideas about conscience, moral judgment, and virtue that have taken on renewed importance in business and politics.
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Collected for the first time, the New York stories of John O'Hara, "among the greatest short story writers in English, or in any other language" (Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker) Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the twentieth century's definitive chroniclers of the city'the speakeasies and highballs, social climbers and cinema stars, mistresses and powerbrokers, unsparingly observed by a popular American master...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran - now revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language edition. The translator has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi's masterpiece, adding more than seventy pages of newly-translated text. Davis's combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the 'Shahnameh' to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly marked...
13) Bread givers
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The youngest of four daughters in a family that left Poland in the 1920s for the crowded tenements of New York City's Lower East Side, Sara Smolinsky has seen her sisters resign themselves under their rabbi father's iron fist to loveless marriages and empty futures. They are bread givers, working to feed the family while their father studies the Torah--according to which, as their father reminds them, a woman without her father or husband is less...
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Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"One of Cuba's-and Latin America's-greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in sixty years and featuring a new foreword by Alejandro Zambra. When he arrives in Cuba at the close of the eighteenth century, Victor Hugues, a merchant sailor from Marseille, brings with him not only the idealism of the French Revolution but also its ambition and bloodlust. Landing...
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Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The first English translation of the Islamic world's preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics. Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and religious thought-an esteemed judge, poet, and scholar in Cairo-survived the bubonic plague, which took the lives of three of his children, not to mention tens of millions of others throughout the medieval world. Holding up an eerie mirror to our own time, he reflects on the origins...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"An anthology of classic murder mysteries - the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by the most famous practitioners A Penguin Classic These are not the usual suspects. When Edgar finalist Michael Sims formed the line-up for The Penguin Book of Murder, he did not include the familiar classics that you can find anywhere. Although he wanted to explore the first century of murder mysteries (from 1827 to 1924), he sought out the...
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