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1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Literature | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su ...Show more
A Christmas Carol: Popular Penguins by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The classic holiday tale is presented with two other Dickens Christmas stories, "The Chimes" and "The Haunted Man"Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed b ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Popular Penguins by Lewis Carroll
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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
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 ...Show more
Beowulf: Popular Penguins by Michael Alexander
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Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"Alexander's translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful and] ...communicates the poem with a care which goes beyond fidelity-to-meaning and reaches fidelity of implication. May it go on ... to another half-million copies." - Tom Shippey, Bulletin of the I ...Show more
Book of Longing: Popular Penguins by Leonard Cohen
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Category: Poetry | 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
Brideshead Revisited 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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It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the ...Show more
Civilization and Its Discontents: Popular Penguins by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Psychology | 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
Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Literature | 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
Cold Comfort Farm: Popular Penguins by Stella Gibbons
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A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, Cold Comfort Farmby Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm... ...Show more
Curly Verse: Selected Poems - Popular Penguins by Michael Leunig
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Category: Religion | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In this selection of poems covering the period 1972 to 2002. This beautifully elegant volume excludes the cartoon element, focusing on Leunig's brilliant texts, with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy and joyfulness. Michael Leunig pokes fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deplores the idiocy ...Show more