28 must-read modern classics books like Till September Petronella by Jean Rhys

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Till September Petronella

By: Jean Rhys

3.39

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

'I knew he was imagining a really lovely girl—all curves, curls, heart and hidden claws' In stor…

"We sat under the mango tree and I was holding his hand when he began to cry. Drops fell on my hand like the water from the dripstone in the filter in our yard. Then I began to cry too and when I felt my own tears on my hand I thought, 'Now perhaps we're married. 'Yes, certainly, now we're married,' I thought."

-Jean Rhys, Till September Petronella

"We sat under the mango tree and I was holding his hand when he began to cry. Drops fell on my hand like the water from the dripstone in the filter in our yard. Then I began to cry too and when I felt my own tears on my hand I thought, 'Now perhaps we're married. 'Yes, certainly, now we're married,' I thought."

-Jean Rhys, Till September Petronella

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1. Investigations of a Dog

By: Franz Kafka

4.62

Format: None pages,

"Investigations of a Dog" (German: "Forschungen eines Hundes") is a short story by Franz Kafka writ… read more

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2. Notes on Nationalism

By: George Orwell

4.01

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

In this essay, Orwell discusses the notion of nationalism, and argues that it causes people to disr… read more

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  • classics
  • modern classics
  • 20th century
  • short stories
"Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism."

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

"For those who feel deeply about contemporary politics, certain topics have become so infected by considerations of prestige that a genuinely rational approach to them is almost impossible."

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of…"

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

"By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled…"

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

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3. The Veiled Woman (PENGUIN MODERN)

By: Anaïs Nin

3.48

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?' Transgress… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
"Sometimes she answered, 'My mouth wants you, I want to feel you in my mouth, way down in my mouth.' Other times she answered, 'I am moist between the legs."

-Anaïs Nin, The Veiled Woman (PENGUIN MODERN)

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4. Create Dangerously

By: Albert Camus

3.84

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a respo… read more

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  • classics
  • modern classics
"Artists, like everyone else, must take up their oars without dying, if possible."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"To paint a still life, a painter and an apple must confront and adjust to each other."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"Perhaps there is no peace for an artist other than the peace found in the heat of combat."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"But now the artist is in the amphitheatre. Of necessity, his voice is not quite the same; it is not nearly so firm."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

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5. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

By: Audre Lorde

4.55

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more

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  • classics
"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

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6. The Three Electroknights

By: Stanisław Lem

3.33

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?' From a… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
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7. Three Japanese Short Stories

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

3.28

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales fr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
"Heroes have always been monsters who crushed sentimentalism underfoot."

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

"Oh, but once one has returned to the land of one's birth – there is no place more constricting – one's surroundings no longer permit such freedom, and one can no longer simply transcend the demands o…"

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

"For her I would gladly ferry across the Sumida on the coldest winter day to buy her those sakura-mochi sweets from old Edo that she loved so much. But medicine? That is another matter. Not even on th…"

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

"No, nothing in this world is as oppressive and debilitating as blood ties. Any other relationship – be it friend, lover, wife; be it obligatory or constraining or difficult – is something one has con…"

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

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8. The Vigilante

By: John Steinbeck

3.50

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of A… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • adult
  • modern classics
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9. The Breakthrough

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.59

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of lif… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
"These involve programming it with a series of questions. The answers are then fed back into the computer, and are themselves used to modify the questions that follow."

-Daphne du Maurier, The Breakthrough

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10. Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady

By: Clarice Lispector

3.52

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

"The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently thro… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • adult
  • modern classics
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11. Of Dogs and Walls

By: Yūko Tsushima

3.68

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

Two luminous, tender stories from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers, showing how ch… read more

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  • fiction
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains – in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone."

-Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls

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12. Letter from Birmingham Jail

By: Martin Luther King Jr.

4.54

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

There is an alternate edition published under ISBN13: 9780062509550. 'Injustice anywhere is a th… read more

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  • classics
  • modern classics
"It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends."

-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

"There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over..."

-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself."

-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

"Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily."

-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

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13. The Black Ball

By: Ellison Ralph

3.79

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
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14. The Gigolo

By: Françoise Sagan

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
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15. The Skeleton’s Holiday

By: Leonora Carrington

3.66

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear h… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
"The hyena found it difficult to walk in my high-heeled shoes."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straitjacket had been taken off."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"The skeleton's lodgings had an ancient head and modern feet. The ceiling was the sky, the floor the earth. It was painted white and decorated with snowballs in which a heart beat. He looked like a tr…"

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

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16. Food

By: Gertrude Stein

1.96

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits … read more

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  • classics
  • modern classics
  • 20th century
  • short stories
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17. New York City in 1979

By: Kathy Acker

3.11

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

"It is necessary to go to as many extremes as possible." A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
"Intense sexual desire is the best thing in the world."

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

"The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny."

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

"old people have to go to children's or most often to rest homes where they are shunted into wheelchairs and made as fast as possible into zombies cause it's easier to handle a zombie, if you have to …"

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

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18. The Finger

By: William S. Burroughs

3.31

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of bloo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
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19. The Missing Girl

By: Shirley Jackson

3.55

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." ' Mali… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
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20. The Distance of the Moon

By: Italo Calvino

3.86

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
"To explode or to implode – said Qfwfq – that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to expand one's energies in space without restraint, or to crush them into a dense inner concentration."

-Italo Calvino, The Distance of the Moon

"My return was sweet, my home refound, but my thoughts were filled only with grief at having lost her, and my eyes gazed at the Moon, for ever beyond my reach, as I sought her. And I saw her. She was …"

-Italo Calvino, The Distance of the Moon

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21. I Have More Souls Than One

By: Fernando Pessoa

3.96

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumbere… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
Cover of Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber by Allen Ginsberg

22. Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber

By: Allen Ginsberg

2.84

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering. read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • modern classics
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23. The Custard Heart

By: Dorothy Parker

3.68

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.' Wise-cracking and heart… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
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24. The End

By: Samuel Beckett

3.19

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
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25. The Duke in His Domain

By: Truman Capote

3.80

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, … read more

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  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
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26. The Great Hunger (Penguin Modern)

By: Patrick Kavanagh

3.48

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided . . .' By turns comical… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
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27. The Legend of the Sleepers (Penguin Modern)

By: Danilo Kiš

2.93

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
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28. An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Penguin Modern)

By: Ryszard Kapuściński

3.61

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing' The great journalist of conflict in the Third World … read more

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  • classics
  • modern classics
  • 20th century
  • short stories
Cover of Till September Petronella by Jean Rhys

29. Till September Petronella

By: Jean Rhys

3.39

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

'I knew he was imagining a really lovely girl—all curves, curls, heart and hidden claws' In stor… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • british literature
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  • 20th century
  • adult
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"We sat under the mango tree and I was holding his hand when he began to cry. Drops fell on my hand like the water from the dripstone in the filter in our yard. Then I began to cry too and when I felt…"

-Jean Rhys, Till September Petronella

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30. Four Russian Short Stories

By: Gaito Gazdanov

3.35

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

In these stories, four writers—all exiles from revolutionary Russia—explore four deaths in a world … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
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31. Glittering City

By: Cyprian Ekwensi

3.15

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

'"Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night"' Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins s… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics

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3.28

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