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Howl, Kaddish & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'The poem that defined a generation'Guardianon 'Howl' 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his n ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles: Popular Penguins by Alan Marshall
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood--a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides, and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders, bushmen, farmers, and tellers of tall stories--a worl ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
Inferno: Popular Penguins by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Welcome to hell.On Good Friday evening in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquaintan ...Show more
Jane Eyre: Popular Penguins by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Charlotte Bronte (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature.The literary heritage of the Bronte sisters entered the treasury of national English culture g ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Popular Penguins by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A novel by the author of 1984 about a man determined to reject middle-class values who finds living in noble poverty more difficult than expected. Gordon Comstock despises the materialism and shallowness of middle-class life--the worship of money, the striving for dull, stuffy respectability. To live ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover: Popular Penguins by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with notes by Michael Squires and an introduction by Doris Lessing.Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless ...Show more
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate: Popular Penguins by Nancy Mitford
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
A sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars. Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, i ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr J ...Show more
Lucky Jim: Popular Penguins by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.'Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full o ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Madame Bovary is the debut Novel of French writer: Gustave Flaubert. published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.