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  • The Lost Girl: Cambridge Lawrence Edition

    D. H. Lawrence, John Worthen, Carol Siegel

    Mass Market Paperback (Penguin Classics, Sept. 1, 1996)
    This captivating novel charts the journey of a woman caught between two worlds and two lives--one mired in dreary England and a life of convention, the other set in the vibrant Italian landscape holding the promise of sensual liberation. Alvina Haughton is fading into spinsterhood when she meets Cicio, a vaudeville dancer who draws her into a dance of seduction, reawakening her desire as she defies her stifling upper-class life.

  • 20th Century Out Of Africa

    Karen Blixen

    Paperback (Penguin Classic, Nov. 7, 1989)
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  • Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Paperback (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, March 15, 1990)
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  • 20th Century After Leaving Mr Mackenzie

    Jean Rhys

    Paperback (Penguin Classic, Aug. 6, 1991)
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  • 20th Century Voyage In The Dark

    Jean Rhys

    Paperback (Penguin Classic, March 6, 1990)
    Anna, 18 and independent both by circumstance and by character, has exchanged the West Indian island of her childhood for the cold, grey island of England, with its narrow streets and narrow rules. She comes to understand a world where people offer you no help unless there's something they want.

  • The Village in the Jungle

    I. Woolfe, Leonard Woolf

    Paperback (Oxford University Press, March 11, 1982)
    The evils of colonialism and the struggles of man against the universe and between man and nature are explored in Woolf's early-twentieth-century saga about Silindu and the inhabitants of the Ceylonese village of Beddagama

  • The Crucible

    Arthur Miller, Christopher Rigsby, Richard Eyre

    Hardcover (Penguin Books, Jan. 29, 2002)
    A play revealing the Salem witch trials of the late seventeenth century and the problem of guilt by association.

  • 20th Century Between The Acts

    Virginia Woolf

    Paperback (Penguin Classic, April 7, 1992)
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  • 20th Century Clockwork Orange

    Anthony Burgess

    Paperback (Penguin Classic, July 2, 1996)
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

  • Kipps

    H. G. Wells

    Paperback (Oxford University Press, April 17, 1986)
    Kipps, the second of Wells's three great comedies of haberdashery, is the central panel in a hilarious triptych of harassed young drapers who eventually find themselves.
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  • 20th Century Orlando

    Virginia Woolf, Brenda Lyons, Sandra Gilbert

    Paperback (Penguin Classic, June 1, 1993)
    This work is a spirited and original fantasy - a mock biography with photographs and detailed index.She has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and gender.

  • 20th Century Vile Bodies

    Evelyn Waugh

    Paperback (Penguin Classic, Feb. 6, 1990)
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