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Penguin Mini Modern Classics
The short story is we're going to change the way you read.
2011 is the fiftieth anniversary of the Penguin Modern Classics. To celebrate we're publishing fifty mini Modern Classics. They're full of the best short fiction by the greatest writers of the last 100 years (or so), from Beckett to Saki, Nabokov to Kafka and Updike to Wodehouse.
Conveniently priced and temptingly sized, each book is a quick literary hit, a satisfying shot of storytelling. And though they don't take long to read, they'll stay with you long after you turn the final page.
2011 is the fiftieth anniversary of the Penguin Modern Classics. To celebrate we're publishing fifty mini Modern Classics. They're full of the best short fiction by the greatest writers of the last 100 years (or so), from Beckett to Saki, Nabokov to Kafka and Updike to Wodehouse.
Conveniently priced and temptingly sized, each book is a quick literary hit, a satisfying shot of storytelling. And though they don't take long to read, they'll stay with you long after you turn the final page.
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Chess
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The Machine Stops
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Babylon Revisited
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The Colour Out of Space
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The Tooth
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Two Gallants
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The Door in the Wall
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Terra Incognita
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Bliss
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Youth
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The Crime Wave at Blandings (Blandings Castle, #5.5)
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Hell Screen
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The Beast in the Jungle
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The Lady in the Looking Glass
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Babette’s Feast
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The Widow Ching-Pirate
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The Expelled
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The Adulterous Woman
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The Sexes
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Flypaper
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Odour of Chrysanthemums
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The Queen's Necklace
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Red Rose, White Rose
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Wunderkind
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Filboid Studge, The Story of a Mouse That Helped
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Him With His Foot in His Mouth
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The Magic Paint
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Through the Wall
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The Last Demon
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Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism
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La Grosse Fifi
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The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
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Moon Lake
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The Gifts of War
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Children On Their Birthdays
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Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book
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They
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Rich in Russia
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Some Of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby
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Lunar Caustic
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Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady
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Dear Illusion
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The Delicate Prey
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Killer in the Rain
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The Living Daylights
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A Breath of Lucifer
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The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland
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The Mark-2 Wife
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I've this bookmarked, and I shall one day soon own them all.
Thanks for this which is great! It will help me meet my 2015 reading challenge in the year I read War and Peace.
Does anyone have a clue where I could buy the complete set? Either the box set or without the box. I've searched Amazon, Ebay and all the retailers that pop up on google without results. Emailing Penguin wasn't of any help either.
teo wrote: "Does anyone have a clue where I could buy the complete set? Either the box set or without the box. I've searched Amazon, Ebay and all the retailers that pop up on google without results. Emailing P..."Is this what you're looking for? Mini Modern Classics Box Set (Penguin Classics) Unfortunately it is not available as new right now, but it does seem to be available second hand though.
Booklovinglady wrote: "teo wrote: "Does anyone have a clue where I could buy the complete set? Either the box set or without the box. I've searched Amazon, Ebay and all the retailers that pop up on google without results..."I'm looking for the set in the first link, but if you look closely the second link is a different one. I can't find the first one anywhere new or used. The only option seems to be to buy the 50 books individually most of which are available.
teo wrote: "Booklovinglady wrote: "teo wrote: "Does anyone have a clue where I could buy the complete set? Either the box set or without the box. I've searched Amazon, Ebay and all the retailers that pop up on..."I just got it today from local book fair at 4500 rs.
Having recently read Thackery's "Vanity Fair", I am now craving short works.
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