This box set of the 50 books in the new Penguin Modern series celebrates the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics list and its iconic authors. Including avant-garde essays, radical polemics, newly translated poetry and great fiction, here are brilliant and diverse voices from across the globe. Ground-breaking and original in their day, their words still have the power to move, challenge and inspire.
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The books included in this boxset are:
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg
The Breakthrough by Daphne Du Maurier
The Custard Heart by Dorothy Parker
Three Japanese Short Stories by Akutagawa & Others
The Veiled Woman by Anaïs Nin
Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell
Food by Gertrude Stein
The Three Electroknights by Stanislaw Lem
The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh
The Legend of the Sleepers by Danilo Kis
The Black Ball by Ralph Ellison
Till September Petronella by Jean Rhys
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka
Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector
An Advertisement for Toothpaste by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
The Vigilante by John Steinbeck
I Have More Souls Than One by Fernando Pessoa
The Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson
Four Russian Short Stories by Gazdanov & Others
The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde
The Skeleton's Holiday by Leonora Carrington
The Finger by William S. Burroughs
The End by Samuel Beckett
New York City in 1979 by Kathy Acker
Africa's Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
The Red Tenda of Bologna by John Berger
The Gigolo by Françoise Sagan
Glittering City by Cyprian Ekwensi
Piers of the Homeless Night by Jack Kerouac
Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? by Hans Fallada
The Duke in His Domain by Truman Capote
Leaving the Yellow House by Saul Bellow
The Cracked LookingbyGlass by Katherine Anne Porter
Dark Days by James Baldwin
Letter to My Mother by Georges Simenon
Death the Barber by William Carlos Williams
The Problem that Has No Name by Betty Friedan
The Dialogue of Two Snails by Federico García Lorca
Of Dogs and Walls by Yuko Tsushima
Madame du Deffand and the Idiots by Javier Marías
The Haunted Boy by Carson McCullers
The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges
Fame by Andy Warhol
The Survivor by Primo Levi
Lance by Vladimir Nabakov
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry
