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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.

Popular Penguin Moderns books
Africa's Tarnished Name
Chinua Achebe
New York City in 1979
Kathy Acker
Dark Days
James Baldwin
The End
Samuel Beckett
Leaving the Yellow House
Saul Bellow
The Red Tenda of Bologna
John Berger
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
Wendell Berry
The Garden of Forking Paths
Jorge Luis Borges
The Finger
William S Burroughs
The Distance of the Moon
Italo Calvino
Create Dangerously
Albert Camus
The Duke in His Domain
Truman Capote
The Skeleton's Holiday
Leonora Carrington
Piers of the Homeless Night
Jack Kerouac
The Black Ball
Ralph Ellison
Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?
Hans Fallada
The Problem that Has No Name
Betty Friedan
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber
Allen Ginsberg
The Missing Girl
Shirley Jackson
Investigations of a Dog
Franz Kafka
An Advertisement for Toothpaste
Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Great Hunger
Patrick Kavanagh
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King
The Legend of the Sleepers
Danilo Kiš
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