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The Great Gatsby: Popular Penguins by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne, his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whispe ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
In this haunting, magical fairytale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and the Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with poetr ...Show more
The Harp in the South: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
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Category: Literature | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
An Australian classic, this is the story of the Darcy family who live in the Depression era tenements of Surry Hills, Sydney. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops, and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy. ...Show more
The Inheritance of Loss: Popular Penguins by Kiran Desai
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Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives a ...Show more
The Invisible Man: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin, the new guest at The Coach and Horses, is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made ...Show more
The Little Prince (Popular Penguins) by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of ext ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday: Green Popular Penguins by G.K. Chesterton
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Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins Ser.
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a s ...Show more
The Mind of God: Popular Penguins by Paul Davies
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Category: Science & Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Paul Davies' The Mind of God is a scientific search for the meaning of the universe. Ranging across the cosmos, Davies explores the origin of the universe, the laws of nature, mathematics, the beginning and end of everything. Ultimately, he seeks to provide a glimpse the meaning of it all. This is a boo ...Show more
The Perfect Murder (Popular Penguins Crime) by H. R. F. Keating
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Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
What terrible luck to be investigating the perfect murder at the beginning of his career with the Bombay Police, thinks Inspector Ghote. First he must deal with the influential tycoon, Lala Verde, his investigation beset on all sides by cunning, disdain and corruption. As if that's not enough, he must t ...Show more
The Periodic Table: Popular Penguins by Primo Levi
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of ...Show more
The Pigeon: Popular Penguins by Patrick Suskind
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Jonathan Noel, bank security guard, has spent 30 years protecting himself from people and events. But an encounter with a glaring pigeon upsets his ordered life and flings him into a state of fear and insecurity. From the author of the international bestselling Perfume.
The Plague by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more