Homo Faber
46.00 ₾Homo Faber by Max Frisch (Penguin Modern Classics) — UNESCO engineer Walter Faber’s rationalist worldview is shattered when coincidences reveal a suppressed truth about his past. A gripping tragedy and parable about the limits of the technological mind, written in prose perfectly calibrated to its narrator. Trans. Michael Bullock.
Orientalism
55.00 ₾Orientalism by Edward W. Said (Penguin Modern Classics) — one of the most influential works of the twentieth-century humanities. Said’s argument that Western Orientalism served imperial interests rather than neutral knowledge inaugurated postcolonial studies and permanently changed thinking about the relationship between knowledge and power. First published in 1978.
The Forsyte Saga: Volume 3
50.00 ₾The Forsyte Saga: Volume 3 by John Galsworthy (Penguin Modern Classics) — the final volume of the Nobel Prize-winning family chronicle. The Forsyte story reaches its conclusion in inter-war Britain with characteristic irony, compassion, and finely judged social observation.
The Forsyte Saga: Volume 2
50.00 ₾The Forsyte Saga: Volume 2 by John Galsworthy (Penguin Modern Classics) — the chronicle continues into post-war Britain with Soames’s daughter Fleur and her troubled marriage. As acute and ironic as the first volume, concluding with one of English fiction’s most moving endings. Essential reading for fans of the saga.
A Happy Death
46.00 ₾A Happy Death by Albert Camus (Penguin Modern Classics) — the novel written before The Stranger, published posthumously in 1971. Mersault’s quest for a life that ends in genuine happiness, told with lyrical beauty and personal intensity. Essential for understanding the development of Camus’s art. Trans. Richard Howard.
Nausea
46.00 ₾Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (Penguin Modern Classics) — the novel that launched existentialism as a cultural movement. Antoine Roquentin’s diary records his overwhelming confrontation with the meaningless facticity of existence — the existentialist vocabulary at its most vivid and accessible. First published in 1938. Trans. Robert Baldick.
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
46.00 ₾Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir (Penguin Modern Classics) — the first volume of her autobiography. From bourgeois Parisian childhood through intellectual formation to liberation from social expectation, ending with her decisive meeting with Sartre. An essential document of twentieth-century feminist and intellectual history.
Of Mice and Men
46.00 ₾Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Penguin Modern Classics) — one of the most affecting short novels in American literature. George and Lennie’s shared dream of their own land in Depression-era California is one of literature’s most moving visions of human solidarity — and its most devastating tragedies. A masterpiece of economy and emotional power.
The Forsyte Saga: Volume 1
50.00 ₾The Forsyte Saga: Volume 1 by John Galsworthy (Penguin Modern Classics) — opens one of the great English family chronicles. The doomed marriage of solicitor Soames and the independent Irene, against the backdrop of a world between Victorian confidence and Edwardian dissolution. The work that earned Galsworthy the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Aleph and Other Stories
46.00 ₾The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges (Penguin Modern Classics) — seventeen tales from his landmark 1949 collection. Labyrinths, infinite libraries, and moments of absolute vision: these stories, in which metaphysics becomes the material of adventure, cemented Borges’s status as one of the twentieth century’s most important writers. Essential world literature.
Words
46.00 ₾Words by Jean-Paul Sartre (Penguin Modern Classics) — his autobiography of childhood, written with the full force of his existentialist analysis. Sartre dissects the bad faith of his childhood self-mythology with devastating honesty and dark humour. One of the most remarkable memoirs in French literature — winner of the Nobel Prize which Sartre famously declined.
The Myth of Sisyphus
46.00 ₾The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (Penguin Modern Classics) — the foundational text of absurdist philosophy. Confronting the absurdity of existence — our need for meaning in a meaningless universe — Camus arrives at his celebrated answer: one must imagine Sisyphus happy. Brief, brilliant, and enduringly useful.
Selected Poems
46.00 ₾Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges (Penguin Modern Classics) — the finest work from his entire poetic career in a bilingual edition. From early ultraist verse to the late sonnets of near-blindness, Borges’s poetry displays precision, musical exactness, and philosophical depth. With translations by W.S. Merwin, Mark Strand, and Richard Wilbur.
The Plague
40.00 ₾The Plague by Albert Camus (Penguin Modern Classics) — Camus’s meditation on suffering, solidarity, and the human condition during a bubonic plague in Oran. Read as allegory of the Nazi occupation. Robin Buss’s acclaimed translation captures the measured clarity of Camus’s finest prose.
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You made all the required mock ups for commissioned layout, got all the approvals, built a tested code base or had them built, you decided on a content management system, got a license for it or adapted:
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