{"id":20210,"date":"2026-02-01T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?page_id=20210"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:13:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:13:04","slug":"penguin-modern-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/have-experienced-them-all\/penguin-modern-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguin Modern Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This collection of 50 books by Penguin is a fascinating series. It brings together fifty short texts by renowned authors from around the world. The genres vary – fiction, poetry, essays – and so do the themes and styles, which makes\n the collection particularly rich and diverse. I will borrow a sentence from the Penguin website because it captures perfectly the feeling of reading these books: \u201cGround-breaking and original in their day, their words still have\n the power to move, challenge and inspire.\u201d Altogether, it is a wonderful collection for discovering – or rediscovering – great authors.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Books read<\/span><\/p>\n

2.\n Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber <\/a>– Allen Ginsberg\n
11.\n The Legend of the Sleepers<\/a> – Danilo Kis\n
13.\n Till September Petronella<\/a> – Jean Rhys\n
19. <\/span>\n I Have More Souls Than One<\/a> – Fernando Pessoa<\/span>\n
24.\n The Skeleton’s Holiday<\/a> – Leonora Carrington\n
31. <\/span>\n The Gigolo<\/a> – Fran\u00e7oise Sagan<\/span>\n
34.\n Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?<\/a> – Hans Fallada\n
43. <\/span>\n Of Dogs and Walls<\/a> – Yuko Tsushima<\/span>\n
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Books to read<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Letter from Birmingham Jail – Martin Luther King Jr\n
3. The Breakthrough – Daphne Du Maurier\n
4. The Custard Heart – Dorothy Parker\n
5. Three Japanese Short Stories – Akutagawa & Others\n
6. The Veiled Woman – Ana\u00efs Nin\n
7. Notes on Nationalism – George Orwell\n
8. Food – Gertrude Stein\n
9. The Three Electroknights – Stanislaw Lem\n
10. The Great Hunger – Patrick Kavanagh\n
12. The Black Ball – Ralph Ellison\n
14. Investigations of a Dog – Franz Kafka\n
15. Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady – Clarice Lispector\n
16. An Advertisement for Toothpaste – Ryszard Kapuscinski\n
17. Create Dangerously – Albert Camus\n
18. The Vigilante – John Steinbeck\n
20. The Missing Girl – Shirley Jackson\n
21. Four Russian Short Stories – Gazdanov & Others\n
22. The Distance of the Moon – Italo Calvino\n
23. The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House – Audre Lorde\n
25. The Finger – William S. Burroughs\n
26. The End – Samuel Beckett\n
27. New York City in 1979 – Kathy Acker\n
28. Africa’s Tarnished Name – Chinua Achebe\n
29. Notes on Camp – Susan Sontag\n
30. The Red Tenda of Bologna – John Berger\n
32. Glittering City – Cyprian Ekwensi\n
33. Piers of the Homeless Night – Jack Kerouac\n
35. The Duke in His Domain – Truman Capote\n
36. Leaving the Yellow House – Saul Bellow\n
37. The Cracked Looking-Glass – Katherine Anne Porter\n
38. Dark Days – James Baldwin\n
39. Letter to My Mother – Georges Simenon\n
40. Death the Barber – William Carlos Williams\n
41. The Problem that Has No Name – Betty Friedan\n
42. The Dialogue of Two Snails – Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca\n
44. Madame du Deffand and the Idiots – Javier Mar\u00edas\n
45. The Haunted Boy – Carson McCullers\n
46. The Garden of Forking Paths – Jorge Luis Borges\n
47. Fame – Andy Warhol\n
48. The Survivor – Primo Levi\n
49. Lance – Vladimir Nabakov\n
50. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer – Wendell Berry<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This collection of 50 books by Penguin is a fascinating series. It brings together fifty short texts by renowned authors from around the world. The genres vary – fiction, poetry, essays – and so do the themes and styles, which makes the collection particularly rich and diverse. I will borrow a sentence from the Penguin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20212,"parent":3170,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20210","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20210"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22386,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20210\/revisions\/22386"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}