Letter from Birmingham Jail

'Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.'Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spiritof the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering aconcentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authorsranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem andGeorge Orwell to Stevie Smith; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving anddisturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South tomodern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outerspace.