\"Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven\"t stolen anyone\"s place\" A selection of poetry from the author of If this is a Man and The Periodic Table....

\"So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded\" Drawing on Baldwin\"s own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays - Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man\"s Guilt - blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a bett...

\"Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing\" The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War Poland Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contempora...

\"As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.\" Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in this stark, confessional piece....

\"I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided...\" By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece \"The Great Hunger\", some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse....

\"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.\" This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love....

\"Intense sexual desire is the greatest thing in the world\" A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New York\"s underground, from cult literary icon Kathy Acker Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, inter...

\"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....

A haunting novella of fame and disillusionment by a Japanese literary icon All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention. They would kill for a moment alone with him....

\"But no, she\"s abstract, is a bird Of sound in the air of air soaring, And her soul sings unencumbered Because the song\"s what makes her sing.\" Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal\"s greatest poets trace a mind shaken by intense suffering and a tireless search for meaning....

Wise-cracking and heartbreaking, these tales of women on the edge by the legendary wit Dorothy Parker show the darkness beneath the surface of the Jazz Age....

\"What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?\" Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are recounted in these four pieces from one of the greatest writers of erotic fiction....

\"She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.\" Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain\"s greatest living writer....

\"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....

Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales from one of the greatest voices of twentieth-century Europe....