Love in a Cold Climate (Pink Popular Penguin) by Nancy Mitford
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Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate is a wickedly funny satire, brilliantly lampooning upper-class society. When Polly, a beautiful aristocrat, declares her love for her married, lecherous uncle - who also happens to be her mother's former lover - she sparks off a scandal that has both disastrous and ...Show more
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
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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
A Handful of Dust: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dustis a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between the wars. It tells the story of bored Lady Brenda Last, who abandons her husband's Gothic pile to conduct an affair with shallow socialite John Beaver of the Belgravia set. A Handful of Dustremains one of the fi ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Popular Penguins by George Orwell
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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
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
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The Gonzo memoir from one of the most influential voices in American literature, Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Hunter S. Thompson's life as a rebel--from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flaunting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, a ...Show more
One Hundred Great Books in Haiku by David Bader
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In the sixteenth century, Japanese monks developed the haiku, a poem consisting of (respectively) three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. Now, David Bader applies this ancient poetic form to 100 Great Books. From Homer to Milton to Dostoyevsky, the entire literary canon is finally withi ...Show more
The Pearl: Popular Penguins by John Steinbeck
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When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world', he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and violence the pearl arouses in him and ...Show more
The Pigeon: Popular Penguins by Patrick Suskind
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Jonathan Noel, bank security guard, has spent 30 years protecting himself from people and events. But an encounter with a glaring pigeon upsets his ordered life and flings him into a state of fear and insecurity. From the author of the international bestselling Perfume.
Playing Beatie Bow: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
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The game is called Beatie Bow, and the kids play it for the thrill of giving themselves a scare. It's Beatie Bow, risen from the dead When Abigail is drawn in, the game quickly changes from a harmless little scare to an extraordinary adventure, as she is transported to a place that is strangely familiar ...Show more
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Popular Penguins by L. Frank Baum
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum. The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone. The novel is one of the best-kn ...Show more
The Beautiful and Damned (Popular Penguin) by F Scott Fitzgerald
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The Beautiful and Damned By F. Scott Fitzgerald This political novel presents sexual, as well as parliamentary, politics. It contains some of Meredith's best writing, and some of his most sensitive portrayals of women. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Librar ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
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In 1804, while a student at Oxford, Thomas De Quincey was looking for relief from excruciating pain when a college acquaintance recommended opium. "Opium!" De Quincey wrote. "Dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain! I had heard of it as I had of manna or of ambrosia, but no further: how unmeaning ...Show more