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
• Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka
• Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector
• An Advertisement for Toothpaste by Ryszard Kapuscinski
• Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
• The Vigilante by John Steinbeck
• I Have More Souls Than One by Fernando Pessoa
• The Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson
• Four Russian Short Stories by Gazdanov & Others
• The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino
• The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde
• The Skeleton's Holiday by Leonora Carrington
• The Finger by William S. Burroughs
• The End by Samuel Beckett
• New York City in 1979 by Kathy Acker
• Africa's Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe
• Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
• The Red Tenda of Bologna by John Berger
• The Gigolo by Françoise Sagan
• Glittering City by Cyprian Ekwensi
• Piers of the Homeless Night by Jack Kerouac
• Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? by Hans Fallada
• The Duke in His Domain by Truman Capote
• Leaving the Yellow House by Saul Bellow
• The Cracked LookingbyGlass by Katherine Anne Porter
• Dark Days by James Baldwin
• Letter to My Mother by Georges Simenon
• Death the Barber by William Carlos Williams
• The Problem that Has No Name by Betty Friedan
• The Dialogue of Two Snails by Federico García Lorca
• Of Dogs and Walls by Yuko Tsushima
• Madame du Deffand and the Idiots by Javier Marías
• The Haunted Boy by Carson McCullers
• The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges
• Fame by Andy Warhol
• The Survivor by Primo Levi
• Lance by Vladimir Nabakov
• Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry

ISBN: 9780241421345