Penguin Modern Box Set

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. The books included in this boxset are: Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg The Breakthrough by Daphne Du Maurier The Custard Heart by Dorothy Parker Three Japanese Short Stories by Akutagawa & Others The Veiled Woman by Anaïs Nin Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell Food by Gertrude Stein The Three Electroknights by Stanislaw Lem The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh The Legend of the Sleepers by Danilo Kis The Black Ball by Ralph Ellison Till September Petronella by Jean Rhys