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The Little Drummer Girl: Now a BBC series by John le Carré
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Category: Crime and Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A special edition of John le Carré's thrilling novel of espionage and betrayal in the Middle East, to tie in with the forthcoming BBC series starring Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Shannon and Florence Pugh Charlie, a jobbing young English actress, is accustomed to playing different roles. But when the m ...Show more
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori.
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guervara
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An iconic bestseller- Che Guevara's account of his youthful adventures travelling around South America on his motorcycleAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native Argentina to explore their continent, with only a single 1939 Norton motorcyc ...Show more
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver finds 'the Pearl of the World' he believes that his impoverished life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in the church and their son, Coyotito, will go to school. Obsessed by his dream, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses ...Show more
The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories by Henry Lawson
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson has become part of the Australian national psyche, and his short stories and verse have come to affect how Australian's view their country.Yet at his best Lawson transcends even the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: No Category | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Utterly unique and beloved around the world, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic essays by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. Telling the story of the prophet Al-Mustafa and his conversations with various acquaintances as he returns home after a long absence, the boo ...Show more
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
All that deep-rooted vitality flowered in her voice, her face, in her very finger-tips. She felt like a tree bursting into bloom'Thea Kronberg, a young girl from the small desert town of Moonstone, Colorado, has a great gift - her beautiful singing voice. This talent will take her all the way to the gre ...Show more
The Sun Also Rises (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Hemingway'sclassic novel of post-war disillusionment-the emblematic novel of the Lost Generation-now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, in a beautiful Graphic Deluxe Edition featuring flaps, deckled edges, and specially commissioned cover art by R. Kikuo Johnson and a new introduction b ...Show more
The Unconscious by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives. This volume contains a key statement about evidence for the unconscious, and how it works, as well as m ...Show more
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women's history.' In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to wr ...Show more
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American moralityatwo classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts IN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with "The Winter of Our Discontent," he had aresumed his position as an indep ...Show more
The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The new "Penguin Freud", under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light. This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be appreciated nowhere more vividly than in "The Case Histories": "Little Hans", "The Rat Man", "The Wolf Man ...Show more