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Prepare to be swept away. Watch the official trailer for Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Emily Brontë’s timeless masterpiece, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. “Wuthering Heights” only in theaters this Valentine’s Day. #WutheringHeightsMovie
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Now available for the first time from Penguin Classics: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, with a new foreword by @abe_verghese, the bestselling author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for Stone! Start reading 👉 https://t.co/9Nj4oeQHmW
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In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth this December, we're thrilled to share THREE new Deluxe Editions editions of Austen's beloved novels: Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, and Mansfield Park! Learn more 👉 https://t.co/AHABMzbwCV
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The National Book Foundation is awarding Roxane Gay, editor of THE PORTABLE FEMINIST READER, with its annual Literarian Award for her service to the American literary community. (via @latimes)
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Prolific author and social critic Roxane Gay, who is writing a sexy novel with Channing Tatum, will receive a lifetime achievement honor at the National Book Awards in November.
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On sale today: Witi Ihimaera's bestselling modern classic and Māori coming-of-age novel The Whale Rider, featuring a foreword by actress @lily_gladstone, an introduction by author @shilokino, and contributions by scholar Loriene Roy! Learn more 👉 https://t.co/qNwcGIsiH9
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New to Penguin Classics: Tamas by Bhisham Sahni, an essential novel about the 1947 Partition in a newly revised translation by Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy Rockwell with a foreword by Siddhartha Deb (@debhartha)! Learn more and start reading 👉 https://t.co/3mecFZs86I
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Xochitl Gonzalez on finally reading A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN: "What had once been to me nothing but a totem to feminist history revealed itself to be what I should have realized it was all along: a piece of another woman’s soul."
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On finally reading A Room of One’s Own
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“In one afternoon, Woolf became known to me, and all my years of blind grievance melted away. Her honesty and fire and rage at the limitations put on women’s minds dissolved all the distance between us,” Xochitl Gonzalez writes:
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On finally reading A Room of One’s Own
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New to Penguin Classics: two new editions of Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN, featuring an introduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez! Start reading now 👉 https://t.co/1SSMOgihMu
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“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.” —John Steinbeck, East of Eden 🔗: https://t.co/S0Bpq3Bsjp
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NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: The Peasants by Wladyslaw Reymont Translated by Anna Zaranko and with an introduction by Ryszard Koziolek, dive into one of Poland’s most significant 20th century epics from the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature now 👉 https://t.co/ERFIHbysVt
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100 years ago, Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska was published for the first time! Have you read this timeless American novel? 🔗 https://t.co/YaNQDau8bt
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NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein, in a new translation by Alexander Booth and featuring an introduction by Jan Zwicky! Learn more and start reading now 👉 https://t.co/21HY1k2skZ
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NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky, in a new translation for the first time since publication by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp and featuring an introduction and notes by Lisa Florman! Start reading now 👉 https://t.co/Nr5c39ZtO9
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“The best English edition of the classic Chinese fantasy novel I have ever read.” ―@LAReviewofBooks Monkey King fans, rejoice! Our Black Spine edition of the acclaimed Julia Lovell translation with a foreword by @geneluenyang is now available! 👉 https://t.co/crnmDu8UgQ
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Roxane Gay, who is kicking off her book tour to promote her latest project, "The Portable Feminist Reader," anticipates questions about how we navigate this political moment. "We should aim higher than survival," she says. https://t.co/9LMIAhnTlo
thenation.com
An interview with the best-selling author about her latest project, The Portable Feminist Reader.
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"Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Khosrow and Shirin." —@washingtonpost NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: Khosrow and Shirin, a tragic epic love story by Nezami Ganjavi, one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, translated by Dick Davis! 👉 https://t.co/DXbqwMwc9Y
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Celebrate 100 years of The Great Gatsby! Our new centennial edition of one of the most iconic American novels features an introduction by @minjinlee11 and includes four beloved stories from Fitzgerald’s 1926 collection, All the Sad Young Men! Learn more: https://t.co/fXMBHPPBmK
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🎉 Congratulations Roxane Gay! THE PORTABLE FEMINIST READER is a New York Times bestseller! 🎉 Start reading now 👉 https://t.co/3YWhCksFr3
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New Classic alert! ✨📖 The Penguin Book of Elegy edited by Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan is a profound and moving compendium of the fundamentally human urges to honor the dead, and to give comfort to those who survive them. Start reading now 👉 https://t.co/6PMKVEfiOS
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