Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Everything Is Illuminatedis Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for truth,published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.The inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, starring Elijah WoodA young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching ...Show more
A Handful of Dust: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
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
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and na vet continue to charm. This volume ...Show more
The Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer
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Category: CLASSICS | Reading Level: very good
"When it comes to human evolution Chris Stringer is as close to the horse's mouth as it gets...The Origin of Our Species should be the one-stop source on the subject. Read it now". (BBC Focus). Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we spread across the globe? Are we separate from Neanderthals, or ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
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Category: CLASSICS | Reading Level: very good
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic dystopian tale. 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Poli ...Show more
The Last Days of Socrates - Plato: Translated by Christopher Rowe - Penguin Classics by Plato
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
"Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just" Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is a significant moment in Classical literature and the life of Classical Athens. In these four dialogues, Plato develops the Socratic belief in responsibili ...Show more
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English by Geza Vermes
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judean desert between 1947 and 1956 was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. These extraordinary manuscripts appear to have been hidden in the caves at Qumran by the Essenes, a Jewish sect in existence before and during the time of Jesus. Wri ...Show more
Penguin's Poems for Love by BARBER LAURA
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Category: CLASSICS
Here are poems to take you on a journey from the 'suddenly' of love at first sight to the 'truly, madly, deeply' of infatuation and on to the 'eternally' of love that lasts beyond the end of life, along the way taking in flirtation, passion, fury, betrayal and broken hearts. Bringing together the greate ...Show more
Islamic Mystical Poetry by Mahmood Jamal
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Category: CLASSICS
Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are imbue ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
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Category: CLASSICS
This volume contains six major novels by Jane Austen - "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion" and "Lady Susan".
Banjo Paterson: Collected Verse by Banjo Paterson
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Category: CLASSICS | 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
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: CLASSICS
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Ki ...Show more