In the Castle of My Skin (Penguin Modern Classics)

✍ George Lamming 📂 Fiction 📅 1953; 2016 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd;Penguin Classics 🌐 English ⚖ 268 KB 👁 2 views

In a sleepy fishing village in 1930s Barbados, nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief. While the village lies tranquil in the shadow of its English landlord, Mr Creighton, and his towering house on the hill, G. makes his own fun, crab catching, teasing preachers, and playing among the pumpk

My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man (Penguin Modern Classics)

✍ Bataille, Georges 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 English ⚖ 113 KB

Overview: In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Mother is a frank and intense depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and inte

My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man (Penguin Modern Classics)

✍ Bataille, Georges 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 English ⚖ 171 KB

Overview: In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Mother is a frank and intense depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and inte

In the Making (Penguin Modern Classics)

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

In the Castle of My Skin

✍ George Lamming 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 English ⚖ 362 KB

'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin' Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief crab catching, teasing preachers and playing among the pumpkin vines. His sleepy fishing village in 1930s Barbados is overseen by the English landlord who lives on the

The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

✍ Zwagerman, Joost (editor) 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 412 KB 👁 1 views