Penguin Modern Box Set

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50 Books
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This box set of the 50 books in the new Penguin Modern series celebrates the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics list and its iconic authors. Including avant-garde essays, radical polemics, newly translated poetry and great fiction, here are brilliant and diverse voices from across the globe. Ground-breaking and original in their day, their words still have the power to move, challenge and inspire.

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#1	Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr.	4.83	13 reads
#2	Television Was a Baby Crawling Towards That Death Chamber Television Was a Baby Crawling Towards That Death Chamber Allen Ginsberg	3.83	3 reads
#3	The Breakthrough The Breakthrough Daphne du Maurier	3.75	2 reads
#4	The Custard Heart Dorothy Parker	3.5	3 reads
#5	Three Japanese Short Stories Three Japanese Short Stories Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Kafū Nagai, Koji Uno Jay Rubin	3.4	6 reads
#6	The Veiled Woman Anaïs Nin	3.7	6 reads
#7	Notes on Nationalism George Orwell	4.13	24 reads
#8	Food Gertrude Stein	2.25	2 reads
#9	The Three Electroknights Stanisław Lem	4.17	6 reads
#10	The Great Hunger Patrick Kavanagh	3.5	5 reads
#11	The Legend of the Sleepers Danilo Kiš	0	1 read
#12	The Black Ball Ellison Ralph	4.5	1 read
#13	Till September Petronella Jean Rhys	0	0 reads
#14	Investigations of a Dog Franz Kafka Michael Hofmann (Translator)	3	9 reads
#15	Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady Clarice Lispector Katrina Dodson (Translator)	2.75	5 reads
#16	An Advertisement for Toothpaste Ryszard Kapuściński	3	1 read
#17	Create Dangerously Create Dangerously Albert Camus Justin O'Brien (Translator)	3.71	11 reads
#18	The Vigilante John Steinbeck	3.5	3 reads
#19	I Have More Souls Than One Fernando Pessoa	2.5	3 reads
#20	The Missing Girl Shirley Jackson	4	4 reads
#21	Four Russian Short Stories Gaito Gazdanov Galina Kuznetsova Yury Felsen Nina Berberova Bryan Karetnyk (Translator)	0	0 reads
#22	The Distance of the Moon Italo Calvino Martin L. McLaughlin (Translator) Tim Parks (Translator) William Weaver (Translator)	4.17	11 reads
#23	The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House Audre Lorde	4.58	19 reads
#24	The Skeleton's Holiday The Skeleton's Holiday Leonora Carrington Paul de Angelis (Translator) Marina Warner (Translator) Kathrine Talbot (Translator)	3.25	2 reads
#25	The Finger William S. Burroughs	4	2 reads
#26	The End Samuel Beckett	3.25	4 reads
#27	New York City in 1979 Kathy Acker	3.75	3 reads
#28	Africa's Tarnished Name Chinua Achebe	0	1 read
#29	Notes on Camp Susan Sontag	3.67	24 reads
#30	The Red Tenda of Bologna John Berger	3	4 reads
#31	Gigolo Françoise Sagan	0	0 reads
#32	Glittering City Cyprian Ekwensi	0	0 reads
#33	Piers of the Homeless Night Jack Kerouac	0	0 reads
#34	Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? Hans Fallada	0	0 reads
#35	The Duke in His Domain Truman Capote	4	3 reads
#36	Leaving the Yellow House Saul Bellow	0	1 read
#37	The Cracked Looking-Glass Katherine Anne Porter	0	0 reads
#38	Dark Days Dark Days James Baldwin	4.67	7 reads
#39	Letter to My Mother Georges Simenon	3	1 read
#40	Death the Barber WILLIAM CARLOS WILLI	3	1 read
#41	The Problem That Has No Name The Problem That Has No Name Betty Friedan	5	1 read
#42	The Dialogue of Two Snails Federico García Lorca Tyler Fisher (Translator)	4	1 read
#43	Of Dogs and Walls Yūko Tsushima Geraldine Harcourt (Translator)	3.5	9 reads
#44	Madame du Deffand and the Idiots Javier Marías	0	0 reads
#45	The Haunted Boy Carson McCullers	4.33	3 reads
#46	The Garden of Forking Paths Jorge Luis Borges	4.17	16 reads
#47	Fame Andy Warhol	3.25	6 reads
#48	Survivor Primo Levi	0	0 reads
#49	Lance Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov	4	1 read
#50	Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer Wendell Berry	3.71	7 reads