Penguin Modern

Each little book in the Penguin Modern series offers a concentrated hit of its author’s work. In these pint-sized volumes, discover the ground-breaking writers who today define the radical spirit of Penguin Modern Classics.

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Of Dogs and Walls

Yuko Tsushima

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‘Though their house was new, the…

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The Finger

William S. Burroughs

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‘He felt a sudden deep pity…

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Death the Barber

William Carlos Williams

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‘The alphabet of the trees

is…

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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

Wendell Berry

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‘Do I wish to keep up…

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The Duke in His Domain

Truman Capote

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

Now Brando looked at people with…

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Notes on Camp

Susan Sontag

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‘The ultimate Camp statement- it’s good…

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Food

Gertrude Stein

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

Sadder than salad.

From apples to…

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The Three Electroknights

Stanislaw Lem

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘What use to a being that…

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The Missing Girl

Shirley Jackson

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‘ Of course, no one would…

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Leaving the Yellow House

Saul Bellow

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

She had lived by delays; she…

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The Survivor

Primo Levi

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘Back, away from here, drowned people…

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Lance

Vladimir Nabokov

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘The illegible signature of teetering disaster’

…

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The Great Hunger

Patrick Kavanagh

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‘I have lived in important places…

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Letter from Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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The Skeleton’s Holiday

Leonora Carrington

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘Ring for your maid, and when…

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New York City in 1979

Kathy Acker

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST…

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The Garden of Forking Paths

Jorge Luis Borges

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘Summer was drawing to a close…

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The Vigilante

Mr John Steinbeck

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘Everything was dead, everything unreal; the…

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The Red Tenda of Bologna

John Berger

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘It’s an improbable city, Bologna -…

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Dark Days

James Baldwin

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

Drawing on his own experiences of…

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Piers of the Homeless Night

Jack Kerouac

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘See my hand up-tipped, learn the…

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The Distance of the Moon

Italo Calvino

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and…

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Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

Hans Fallada

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘It was what we call in…

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The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

Audre Lorde

From the self-described ‘black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’, these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.   

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Notes on Nationalism

George Orwell

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘The general uncertainty as to what…

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Investigations of a Dog

Franz Kafka

Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry.

‘If I think about it, and I have the…

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I Have More Souls Than One

Fernando Pessoa

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘But no, she’s abstract, is a…

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The Dialogue of Two Snails

Federico Garcia Lorca

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

My heart brims with billows and…

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The Custard Heart

Dorothy Parker

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘She felt a cozy solidarity with…

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The Breakthrough

Daphne Du Maurier

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

Dispatch the maimed, the old, the…

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Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady

Clarice Lispector

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘The morning became a long, drawn-out…

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Africa’s Tarnished Name

Chinua Achebe

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

He needed to hear Africa speak…

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The Haunted Boy

Carson McCullers

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

His hand sought the adjacent flesh…

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The Problem that Has No Name

Betty Friedan

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘What if she isn’t happy -…

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Three Japanese Short Stories

Ryunosuke Akutagawa,Kafu Nagai,Chiyo Uno

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘Oh the cruelty of time, that…

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The Veiled Woman

Anais Nin

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘What did she expect of him…

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Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber

Allen Ginsberg

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘Wives in the avocados, babies in…

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Create Dangerously

Albert Camus

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘To create today is to create…

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