Author:Henry Eliot
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world
For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers.
This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig.
It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book.
Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.
A heavyweight - but never burdensome - history of the publishing house... A must for quiz-hounds
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—— EconomistIt is the optimism of Silicon Valley that infuses this book: there is still hope for those striving to break into the charmed circle
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—— John Etchemendy, Provost, Stanford UniversityThe same extraordinary vision and timing that enabled Reid to found LinkedIn is once again on display with his book The Start-up of You. His central thesis, that every individual can benefit from acting as the entrepreneur of their own life and career, has never been more important than it is in today's increasingly globalized, competitive, and networked world.
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—— Citywealth Magazine