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The Essential Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem "Howl," this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg's poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs. One of the Beat Generation's most renowned poets and writers, Allen Gi ...Show more
The Finger (Mini Modern Classics) by William S. Burroughs
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.' A deliberately severed finger, a junky's Christmas miracle and a Tangier con-artist, among others, feature in these hallucinogenic sketches and stories from the infamou ...Show more
The Foucault Reader by Foucault, Michel
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Foucault Reader is the ideal introduction to one the most stimulating and influential writers of the past century. It includes detailed excerpts from all his richly textured historical studies - including Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality - as well as many of his best interviews. ...Show more
The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles when the townsfolk discover his homosexuality, and the young man he pays to be his lover humiliates him p ...Show more
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault
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Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault's landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an explosion of discussion about sex as a separate sphere of life for study and ...Show more
The History of Sexuality 2 - The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
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Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Michel Foucault's landmark account explores our evolving attitudes to sex, and shows how are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase in pleasure.
The History of Sexuality 3 - The Care of the Self (Penguin Modern Classics) by Michel Foucault
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Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Michel Foucault's landmark account explores our evolving attitudes to sex, and shows how are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase in pleasure.
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde
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Category: Feminism & Womens Studies | Series: Penguin Modern 23 | Reading Level: near fine
Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry. I am Black and lesbian, and what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet, these soarin ...Show more
The Quest for Corvo by A.J.A. Symonds
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Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar novel called Hadrian the Seventh and, captivated by this forgotten masterpiece, determines to learn everything he can about its mysterious author. Symons proceeds as a detective might, investigating leads, collecting evidence and corresponding with ...Show more
The Smell of Hay by Giorgio Bassani
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith. Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man's unrequited love; a strange di ...Show more
The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, The Ticket That Exploded is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men and con men of the Nova Mob, a call to arms against those driving our planet toward the point of destructi ...Show more