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Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The definitive 25th-anniversay edition of Burroughs's legendary second novel. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-gro ...Show more
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
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Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this co ...Show more
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76 by Michel Foucault
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Society Must Be Defended is taken from a series of lectures given by Foucault at the College de France in 1975-76. Using war to analyse power relations, he contended that politics is ultimately a continuation of battlefield violence, and that ingrained ideas of sovereignty and individual rights are atte ...Show more
Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The story of a young English aristocrat, who - cut adrift by tragedy - is led by her husband's former mistress deep into the fervour, chaos and blood of the French revolution. Summer Will Show is a fearless and wildly entertaining tale of loss and daring self-discovery.
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For bet ...Show more
The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic' Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contempor ...Show more
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. A Penguin Classic First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre ...Show more
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' SARAH WATERS In memory of the wife who had once dishonoured and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded Oby - a twelfth-century convent in a hidden corner of Norfolk. Two centuries l ...Show more
The Early Stories of Truman Capote by Truman Capote
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The early fiction of one of the nation's most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his t ...Show more
The Essential Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem "Howl," this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg's poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs. One of the Beat Generation's most renowned poets and writers, Allen Gi ...Show more
The Foucault Reader by Foucault, Michel
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Foucault Reader is the ideal introduction to one the most stimulating and influential writers of the past century. It includes detailed excerpts from all his richly textured historical studies - including Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality - as well as many of his best interviews. ...Show more