She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.
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The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.
These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating......
Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous.
Fantastical tales of mazes, puzzles, lost labyrinths and bookish mysteries, from the unique imagination of a literary magician.
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If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.
How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.
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'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn't take much interest in them myself.'
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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.
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Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.
Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories.
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Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures
One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence, voyeurism and betrayal in these unforgettable tales of Californian life.
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Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?
Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry.
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'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?'
From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines.
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