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The Pit and the Pendulum: Popular Penguins by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Edgar Allan Poe is not only the finest, most terrifying writer of Gothic horror tales ever to have lived, he also wrote extraordinary poems. Here, Poe writes of the torments of ingenious, malevolent persecutors and of a mind's own sickening madness. The Pit and the Pendulum is a collection of works from ...Show more
The Plague: Popular Penguins by Albert Camus
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Popular Penguins by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime' Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So ...Show more
The Prince: Popular Penguins by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Princeis his controversial handbook about the dynamics of power, leadership and strategy. Machiavelli's shrewd argument that sometimes it is necessary to ab ...Show more
The Prophet: Popular Penguins by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"The Prophet, a bestseller around the world and translated into over twenty languages, is the best-known and best-loved of Kahlil Gibran's many writings. Inspired largely by the beauty and timelessness of nature, The Prophet speaks of love and marriage, joy and sorrow, reason and passion, beauty and dea ...Show more
The Psychology of Love: Popular Penguins by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Freud's landmark writings on love and sexuality, including the famous case study of Dora newly translated and in one volume for the first time This original collection brings together the most important writings on the psychology of love by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. Sigmund F ...Show more
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret Historyis a remarkable achievement - incredibly compelling, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college disc ...Show more
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Shadow of the Sunencompasses forty years of incisive and moving reportage about Africa by one of the world's greatest journalists. From newly independent Ghana to war-torn Rwanda, Kapuscinski captures the sights, sounds, smells and, above all, the real lives of this vast contin ...Show more
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: Popular Penguins by Simon Winchester
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Simon Winchester'sThe Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an extraordinary friendship in the nineteenth century. It is the tale of James Murray, the compiler of the first Oxford English Dictionary, and his most valued helper- ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps: Popular Penguins by John Buchan
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Richard Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat, and returns la ...Show more
The Time Machine: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have reason to be afraid: in tunnels bene ...Show more
The Trial: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Trial (Der Process in German) is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavi ...Show more