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Buy The Hour of the Star (Penguin Modern Classics) by Lispector, Clarice, Moser, Benjamin (ISBN: 9780141392035) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Vintage Penguin Modern Classics editions Virginia Woolf, Andre Gide, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Joseph Conrad, Malcolm Lowry, Hermann Hesse, Aldous Huxley, Jack Kerouac

The first novel in the autobiographical Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, Sexus depicts Miller's first stormy marriage and his sexual escapades in New York City with the mysterious dance hall hostess Mona. Published in 1949 in Paris, this picaresque tale was banned in the US and the UK for two decades. Funny and shocking, erotic and philosophical, the trilogy tells, according to Miller, 'the story of the most tragic suffering any man had endured'.

A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of renewal and belief in the future. Now an old man, Birkin looks back on the idyllic summer of 1920, remembering a vanished place of blissful calm, untouched by change, a precious moment he has…

Aesthetics offers a focused study on the philosophy, literature and art which informed Foucault's engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Wagner.

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