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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.
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
Box dimensions: 293mm x 117mm x 166mm