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The History of Sexuality 3 - The Care of the Self (Penguin Modern Classics) by Michel Foucault
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Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Michel Foucault's landmark account explores our evolving attitudes to sex, and shows how are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase in pleasure.
The Quest for Corvo by A.J.A. Symonds
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Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar novel called Hadrian the Seventh and, captivated by this forgotten masterpiece, determines to learn everything he can about its mysterious author. Symons proceeds as a detective might, investigating leads, collecting evidence and corresponding with ...Show more
The Smell of Hay by Giorgio Bassani
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith. Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man's unrequited love; a strange di ...Show more
The Symposium by Plato
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical challenge t ...Show more
The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, The Ticket That Exploded is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men and con men of the Nova Mob, a call to arms against those driving our planet toward the point of destructi ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in "Penguin Modern Classics". More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, "The Waves" conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group ...Show more
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestseller. The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short - and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to w ...Show more
Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, GuardianDorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a freelance journalist who sleeps with un ...Show more
Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"Venus in Furs" describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This is a passionate and powerful portrayal of one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct hims ...Show more
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
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Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suf ...Show more
Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Oliver Harris (Introduction by)
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Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters- a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he jo ...Show more