This title is one of 50 new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic ‘Penguin Modern Classics’ series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Stevie Smith; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York’s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outerspace.
The great hunger
€2.50
Description
‘I have lived in important places, times
When great events were decided . . .’
By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece ‘The Great Hunger’, some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York’s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.044 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 16.1 × 11.1 × 0.4 cm |
| Book_author | Kavanagh, Patrick |
| Publisher | Penguin Classics |
| Imprint | Penguin Classics |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 64 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | |
| Dewey | 821.912 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
