The Lady in the Lake: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Lady in the Lakeis a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Troub ...Show more
Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Classics
From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories represents some of Margaret Atwood's most witty, wise short stories.Discover this sharp, funny short story collection from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The TestamentsA man finds himse ...Show more
Maurice by E.M. Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Cli ...Show more
Orwell and England: Selected Essays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A collection of Orwell's compellingly perceptive essays on subjects from food to weather to unemployment, edited and introduced by Professor Michael Gardiner.George Orwell wrote extensively about English life and politics. The selection of essays and journalism in Orwell and England brings together some ...Show more
Is That You, Ruthie?: First Nations Classics by Jackie Huggins, Ruth Hegarty
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Category: Classics
'Is that you ...?' Matron's voice would ring out across the dormitory. In that pause sixty little girls would stop in their tracks, waiting to hear who was in trouble. All too often the name called out would be that of the high-spirited dormitory girl Ruthie.In the Depression years Queensland's notoriou ...Show more
Mazin' Grace: First Nations Classics by Dylan Coleman, Claire G Coleman
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Category: Classics
Growing up on the Mission isn't easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn't know what to say. Papa Neddy says her dad is the Lord God in Heaven, but that doesn't help when the Mission kids call her a bastard. As Grace slowly pieces together clues that ...Show more
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: Popular Penguins by Andy Warhol
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A loosely formed autobiography by Andy Warhol, told with his trademark blend of irony and detachment In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol--which, with the subtitle "(From A to B and Back Again)," is less a memoir than a collection of riffs and reflections--he talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Daniel Defoe's great masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my h ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Category: Classics
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slaver ...Show more
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation ...Show more
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
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social ...Show more