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A Penguin ClassicWinner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technol... Read More about Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition): (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Written 75 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...This 75th Anniversary Edition includes:• A New Introduction by Dolen P... Read More about 1984: 75th Anniversary

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels “A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.” — San Francisco Examiner The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon's highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what wo... Read More about The Crying of Lot 49

"This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century." —Atlantic Review Acclaimed writer Thomas Pynchon's wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose—and "V.," the unknown woman of the ti... Read More about V.

"The funniest book Pynchon has written." — Rolling Stone"Entertainment of a high order." - TimePart noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon—private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an... Read More about Inherent Vice: A Novel

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels “The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.”—New York Times Thomas Pynchon’s highly original, postmodernist classic, a satire of American life about a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a seeming international conspiracy. When her ex-lover, w... Read More about Crying of Lot 49: A Novel