Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid (Penguin Modern Classics)

Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid

📂 Standards 📅 2011 🏛 Penguin 🌐 English ⚖ 387 KB

These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In Briar Rose a sleeping beauty is trapped in an enchantment for a hundred years, dreaming of stories in which someone like her wakes up disappointed, or becomes a mother, o

Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid

✍ Robert Coover; Robert Coover; John Banville 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 73 KB

These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In Briar Rose a sleeping beauty is trapped in an enchantment for a hundred years, dreaming of stories in which someone like her wakes up disappointed, or becomes a mother, o

The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics)

✍ Albert Camus, Robin Buss, Tony Judt 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Penguin Books 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 318 KB 👁 5 views

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek

The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)

✍ Camus, Albert 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 en-jm ⚖ 71 KB 👁 5 views

The Big Sleep (Penguin Modern Classics)

✍ Chandler, Raymond 📂 Fiction 📅 2000 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 English ⚖ 110 KB

SUMMARY: Raymond Chandler created the fast - talking, trouble - seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures - is the background to a story re

In the Making (Penguin Modern Classics)

✍ Green, G. F. 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 English ⚖ 128 KB