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The Veiled Woman by Anais Nin
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Category: Erotic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?'Tales of transgressive desire and erotic adventure are recounted in these four shimmering pieces.
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in "Penguin Modern Classics". More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, "The Waves" conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group ...Show more
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestseller. The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short - and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to w ...Show more
Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, GuardianDorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a freelance journalist who sleeps with un ...Show more
Wait Till I'm Dead - Poems Uncollected by Allen Ginsberg
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead. Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 AM Allen Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than fifty years, and many of the poems collected for the first time in this volume were scribbled in letters or sent off to obscure publications ...Show more
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
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Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suf ...Show more
Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Oliver Harris (Introduction by)
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Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters- a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he jo ...Show more
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Gr ...Show more