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.Letter from Birmingham JailTelivision Was a Baby…The BreakthroughThe Custard HeartThree Japanese Short StoriesThe Veiled WomanNotes on NationalismNot Waving But DrowningThe Three ElectroknightsThe Great HunterThe Legend of the SleepersThe Black BallThe September Petronella Investigations of a DogDaydream and DrunkennessAn Advertisement For ToothpasteCreate Dangerously The VigilanteI Have More Souls Than OneThe Missing GirlFour Russian Short StoriesThe Distance of the MoonTender ButtonsThe Skeletons HolidayThe FingerThe EndNew York City in 1979Africa's Tarnished NameNotes on CampThe Red Tenda of BolognaThe GigoloGlittering CityPiers of the Homeless NightWhy Do You Wear a Cheap WatchThe Duke in his DomainLeaving the Yellow HouseThe Cracked Looking GlassNothing PersonalLetter to my MotherDeath The BarberThe Problem That Has No NameThe Dialogue of Two SnailsOf Dogs and WallsMadame du Deffand and the IdiotsThe Haunted BoyThe Garden of Forking PathsFameThe SurvivorLanceWhy I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer