Penguin Modern Classics

Delve into the transformative works that have defined modern literature with our Penguin Modern Classics collection at Harry Hartog. Featuring a diverse array of authors and narratives, these seminal texts offer profound insights into the human experience and continue to resonate with readers today.

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East of Eden by John Steinbeck - 9780141185071
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East of Eden
John Steinbeck
A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century...
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector - 9780141197364
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Agua Viva
Clarice Lispector
A masterly work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality...
Ways of Seeing by John Berger - 9780141035796
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Ways of Seeing
John Berger
Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look...
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote - 9780141182575
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
'It is the American dream turning into the American nightmare ... By juxtaposing and dovetailing...
Another Country by James Baldwin - 9780141186375
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Another Country
James Baldwin
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal...
History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky - 9780241301319
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History of the Russian Revolution
Leon Trotsky
'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as...
Orientalism by Edward W. Said - 9780141187426
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Orientalism
Edward W. Said
The book that redefined our understanding of the legacy of European colonialism and empire, now...
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde - 9780241410509
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Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde
The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place...
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton - 9780141189116
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The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
First time in Penguin Modern Classics In Ponyboy's world there are two types of people....
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon - 9780141186542
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The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker...
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham - 9780141181479
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The Chrysalids
John Wyndham
\"In a decade marked, much like our own, by simple fears, John Wyndham refused to...
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - 9780141182483
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Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh's masterpeice, Brideshead Revisted is an extraordinary mediation on a lost world The most...
Perfume by Patrick Suskind - 9780241420294
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Perfume
Patrick Suskind
The acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, reissued with a new PMC jacket Survivor, genius, perfumer,...
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - 9780141185064
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century...
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein - 9780141185361
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon...
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag - 9780141190068
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Susan Sontag
A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking Against...
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre - 9780141185491
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Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
The classic existentialist novel, now rejacketed in the Penguin Modern Classics eau-de-nil livery Nausea is...
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov - 9780141185606
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Invitation to a Beheading
Vladimir Nabokov
Nightmarish, witty and immaculately conceived, Invitation to a Beheading unsparingly teases out the illogic of...
Johnno by David Malouf - 9780143180142
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Johnno
David Malouf
David Malouf's first novel recreates the war-conscious forties, the pubs and brothels of the fifties,...
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector - 9780241371367
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An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
Clarice Lispector
A boundary-breaking, riveting romance narrative from the seminal Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector A lonely woman...
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector - 9780241371374
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The Besieged City
Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector's revelatory third novel, now in English for the first time Written in flight...
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka - 9780241436240
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Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
A PMC reissue of this collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - 9780141191454
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson's masterpiece- the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister...
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson - 9780141191447
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The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
'As nearly perfect a haunted-house tale as I have ever read' - Stephen King Four...
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology by Michel Foucault - 9780241435113
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Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology
Michel Foucault
The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and...
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon - 9780241396667
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Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon
One of the most radical and influential essays on race and racism, now available in...
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick - 9780141186672
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The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War... Philip K Dick...
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Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis - 9780241408407
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Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis
The ground-breaking history of civil rights and inequality by legendary political activist and scholar Angela...