Publisher's Synopsis
Boxset containing one of each title in the Penguin Modern series. From groundbreaking fiction and avant-garde poetry to radical polemics and blues lyrics, these are all complete standalone works, some of which have never been published in Penguin Modern Classics before.
The full list of itles included are:
Africa's Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe
New York City in 1979 by Kathy Acker
Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
The End by Samuel Beckett
Leaving the Yellow House by Saul Bellow
The Red Tenda of Bologna by John Berger
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry
The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges
The Finger by William S. Burroughs
The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino
Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
The Duke in His Domain by Truman Capote
The Skeleton's Holiday by Leonora Carrington
Glittering City by Cyprian Ekwensi
The Black Ball by Ralph Ellison
Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? by Hans Fallada
The Problem That Has No Name by Betty Friedan
Television Was a Baby Crawling Towards That Death Chamber by Allen Ginsberg
The Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka
An Advertisement for Toothpaste by Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh
Piers of the Homeless Night by Jack Kerouac
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King
The Legend of the Sleepers by Danilo Kiš
The Three Electroknights by Stanislaw Lem
The Survivor by Primo Levi
Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector
The Dialogue of Two Snails by Federico García Lorca
Everything Bad Comes Back by Javier Marías
Not After Midnight by Daphne du Maurier
The Haunted Boy by Carson McCullers
Lance by Vladimir Nabokov
The Veiled Woman by Anaïs Nin
Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell
The Custard Heart by Dorothy Parker
I Have More Souls Than One by Fernando Pessoa
The Cracked Looking-Glass by Katherine Anne Porter
Till September Petronella by Jean Rhys
The Gigolo by Françoise Sagan
Letter to My Mother by Georges Simenon
Food by Gertrude Stein
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
The Master's Tools… by Audre Lorde
The Vigilante by John Steinbeck
Of Dogs and Walls by Yuko Tsushima
Fame by Andy Warhol
Death the Barber by William Carlos Williams
Three Japanese Short Stories
Four Russian Short Stories
