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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Queer by William S. Burroughs - 9780141189918
$26.99
Queer
William S. Burroughs
The definitive 25th-anniversary edition of Burroughs's legendary second novel Originally written in 1952 but not...
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs - 9780141189765
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Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
At long last William S. Burroughs's cult classic and undoubted masterpiece enters Penguin Modern Classics...
Cities of the Red Night
$33.99
Cities of the Red Night
William S. Burroughs
The first part in a trilogy of novels, Cities of the Red Night satirizes modern...
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - 9780141182605
$17.99
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob,...
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht - 9780141189161
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Bertolt Brecht
New to Modern Classics The play is a parable inspired by the Chinese play Chalk...
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles - 9780141187778
$22.99
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
Reissuing in Penguin Modern Classics as part of our Paul Bowles relaunch, with a new...
Collected Stories
$29.99
Collected Stories
Paul Bowles
The stories are published for the first time in their entirety in Penguin Modern Classics...
The Total Library by Jorge Luis Borges - 9780141183022
$44.99
The Total Library
Jorge Luis Borges
Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges...
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges - 9780141184845
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Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are...
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges - 9780141183848
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Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges's short stories, Fictions is a wildly original...
The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges - 9780141183831
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The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges
Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play...
One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin - 9780141189475
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One-Way Street and Other Writings
Walter Benjamin
Introduction by Amit Chaudhuri; translated by J.A. Underwood Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and...
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow - 9780141184869
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The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
"The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further" - Martin...
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille - 9780141185385
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Story of the Eye
Georges Bataille
Bataille's first novel, published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch', is still his most notorious work....
Eroticism by Georges Bataille - 9780141195568
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Eroticism
Georges Bataille
An influential exploration of sex and its surrounding taboos A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and...
Blue of Noon
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Blue of Noon
Georges Bataille
A haunting, compelling tale set against the backdrop of a fascist Europe. Set against the...
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin - 9780241342039
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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
James Baldwin
Baldwin's fourth novel recounts a lifetime of grappling with love, loss and identity 'Everyone wishes...
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin - 9780241334003
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Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of...
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin - 9780141185910
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Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin
"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the...
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin - 9780141186351
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Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American...
Everything Like Before by Kjell Askildsen - 9780241508251
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Everything Like Before
Kjell Askildsen
From a Norwegian master, a selection spanning his entire career, of his famously dark and...
The Psychedelic Experience by Ralph Metzner - 9780141189635
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The Psychedelic Experience
Ralph Metzner
A guidebook to the wilderness of mind and an indispensable resource from the founding father...
Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich - 9780141983561
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Last Witnesses
Svetlana Alexievich
Extraordinary stories about Soviet children's experiences in the Second World War, from Nobel laureate Svetlana...
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich - 9780141983530
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The Unwomanly Face of War
Svetlana Alexievich
The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the...
Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich - 9780241270530
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Chernobyl Prayer
Svetlana Alexievich
A haunting history of the Chernobyl disaster by the winner of the Nobel prize in...
A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo - 9780241345726
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A Woman
Sibilla Aleramo
The heart-wrenching autobiographical novel that paved the way for feminist writers in Italy 'To love,...
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene by Adonis - 9780241483558
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Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
Adonis
The landmark poetry collection that transformed 20th-century Arabic poetry, in a brilliant new translation by...
Great Expectations by Kathy Acker - 9780241352144
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Great Expectations
Kathy Acker
Pip switches identities, sexes, and centuries in Kathy Acker's brilliant experimental explosion of literature, sex...