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Anthem by Ayn Rand
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Equality 7-2521 is a man apart. Since the Great Rebirth it has been a crime in his world to think or act as an individual. Even love is forbidden. Yet, since his childhood in the Home of the Infants, Equality 7-2521 has felt that he is different. When he is sent by the Council of Vocations to work as a ...Show more
Aphorisms on Love and Hate: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 05 by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth...Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater.' This volume contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity o ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
On a seemingly normal day at the exclusive Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of great wealth and exacting tastes, makes an extraordinary £20,000 wager; he will perform an impossible feat and circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Accompanied only by his new French valet, the steady Passepart ...Show more
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; John Robert Glorney Bolton (Editor); Julia Bolton Holloway (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of the po ...Show more
Banjo Paterson: Collected Verse by Banjo Paterson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Australian Classics Ser.
The poet A B 'Banjo' Paterson, best known for his rousing folk classics "The Man from Snowy River" and "Waltzing Matilda," is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular balladist. His poems, written with great gusto and humour, celebrate all the romance and rough-and-tumble of old Aust ...Show more
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution. Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot ag ...Show more
Beyond Good And Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse; subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (German: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft)) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Za ...Show more
Billion-Dollar Brain (#4 IPCRESS) by Len Deighton
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The final spy novel featuring the unnamed hero of The IPCRESS File series finds him up against a Texan billionaire with an all-powerful computerTexan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR - even if it puts the whole world at risk. The fourth and final novel featuring ...Show more
Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A compelling history of Blitzkrieg: the 'lightning war' by which Hitler and his generals overwhelmed the Allied armies in Western Europe. 'Blitzkrieg' begins with a chilling portrait of Hitler's rise to power in pre-war Germany, setting the stage for the outbreak of the Second World War and his conquest ...Show more
Bomber by Deighton Len
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Probably the best thing ever written about the wartime air campaign against Germany' Max Hastings 'Magnificent ... rich with historical detail' The Times 31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a night that many will never forget. Len Deighton's devastating nove ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It describes corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally ... an inferior people'. When Flor ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, "Burmese Days" describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orth ...Show more