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Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love: Popular Penguins by Anais Nin
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A Spy in the House of Love, whose heroine Sabina is deeply divided between her drive for artistic and sexual expression and social restrictions and self-created inhibitions, echoes Anais Nin's personal struggle with sex, love, and emotional fragmentation.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Popular Penguins by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author: Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and enemies) ...Show more
April Fool's Day: Popular Penguins by Bryce Courtenay
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In the end, love is more important than everything and it will conquer and overcome anything. Or that's how Damon saw it, anyway. Damon wanted a book that talked a lot about love. Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days: Popular Penguins by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"To go around the world...in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available, was not only impossible, it was madness" One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he i ...Show more
Book of Longing (Popular Penguins) by Leonard Cohen
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and M ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and na vet continue to charm. This volume ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly ...Show more
Cannery Row (Popular Penguins) by John Steinbeck
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Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood's bordello venture out ...Show more
Civilization and Its Discontents: Popular Penguins by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud ...Show more
Delta of Venus: Popular Penguins by Anais Nin
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
An extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the mistress of erotic writing In Delta of Venus, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer se ...Show more
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
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Category: History | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Niall Ferguson's Empire is one of the most successful and controversial history books of recent years. Brilliantly re-telling the story of Britain's imperial past, it shows how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers from a rainy island in the North Atlantic came to build the most powerful empire in all h ...Show more