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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
Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
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'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
A Confederacy of Dunces (Popular Penguins) by John Kennedy Toole
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Meet Ignatius J. Reilly: flatulent, eloquent and pretty much unemployable . . . The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has ...Show more
A Dark-Adapted Eye (Popular Penguins Crime) by Barbara Vine
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Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Vera was prim and fastidious. Eden was beautiful and adored. Like most families they had their secrets...and they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. Yet their sisterly bond was strained by obsession, manipulation and murderous jealousy. Buried secrets rarely stay buried, and their past still ...Show more
A Kestrel for a Knave (Popular Penguin) by Barry Hines
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"Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knavewas published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and failing at school. He seems destined for a hard, miserable life down the pits, but for a brief time, he finds ...Show more
A Passage To India: Popular Penguins by E. M. Forster
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After a mysterious incident during their visit to the Marabar Caves, the charming Dr Aziz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested, a naive young Englishwoman. His trial exposes the fragile structure of Anglo-Indian relations and the racism inherent in colonialism is exposed. A Passage to India compelling ...Show more
A Rage in Harlem (Popular Penguins Crime) by Chester Himes
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Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Jackson, trusting and besotted with his girlfriend, Imabelle, scrapes his hard-earned savings together in a scheme to triple his money. But it all goes terribly wrong, and Jackson soon finds himself without money, a job, or his beloved Imabelle. Desperate to find her, he turns to his brother for help. F ...Show more
A Room of One's Own: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
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A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and why neither of them could have written War and Peace, over the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (and imaginary) sister, over t ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love: Popular Penguins by Anais Nin
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A Spy in the House of Love, whose heroine Sabina is deeply divided between her drive for artistic and sexual expression and social restrictions and self-created inhibitions, echoes Anais Nin's personal struggle with sex, love, and emotional fragmentation.
A Study in Scarlet (Popular Penguins Crime) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Quiet bachelor life is not as Dr. Watson imagines once he discovers his flat-mate Sherlock Holmes is a consulting detective. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in horror. With no signs of struggle, but a strange word ...Show more
A Three-Pipe Problem (Popular Penguins Crime) by Julian Symons
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Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Small-time actor Sheridan Haynes has a rather unhealthy preoccupation with Sherlock Holmes. So when the chance comes for him to play the famous detective in a TV series, it seems his dreams have come true. And when London becomes plagued by a series of unsolved murders, well, it seems only natural for h ...Show more
A Year in Provence: Popular Penguins by Peter Mayle
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Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence is the much-loved account of an English couple living their dream abroad. When they buy a 200-year-old farmhouse in the South of France, Peter Mayle and his wife little expect the delights that await them - from six-course lunches and epic games of boule, to encounters w ...Show more