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Inferno: Popular Penguins by Dante Alighieri
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Welcome to hell.On Good Friday evening in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquaintan ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
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My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...Show more
Northanger Abbey: Popular Penguins by Jane Austen
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Catherine Morland should know better. She's the very ideal of a nice, normal girl. But Catherine is cursed with an overactive imagination. She is also obsessed with lurid Gothic novels, where terrible things happen to the heroine. Which gets her into all sorts of trouble... When Catherine visits Bath an ...Show more
Notes from Underground: Popular Penguins by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
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A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
On Natural Selection: Popular Penguins by Charles Darwin
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you th ...Show more
Out of Africa: Popular Penguins by Karen Blixen
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In one of the most passionate memoirs ever written, Karen Blixen recalls running a farm in Africa at the start of the twentieth century, and the love affair that changed her life.'When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music.'From the moment Karen Blixen arriv ...Show more
Persuasion: Popular Penguins by Jane Austen
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Eight years ago, Anne rejected the man she loved because her friends and family persuaded her that he wasn't rich or important enough. In all that time, she's never found anyone to match Captain Wentworth. With her snobbish father and spoiled sister always ready to embarrass her in polite society, Anne ...Show more
Playing Beatie Bow: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
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The game is called Beatie Bow, and the kids play it for the thrill of giving themselves a scare. It's Beatie Bow, risen from the dead When Abigail is drawn in, the game quickly changes from a harmless little scare to an extraordinary adventure, as she is transported to a place that is strangely familiar ...Show more
Ragtime by E L Doctorow
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L. Doctorow's Ragtimeseamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of historical figures to bring to life the events that defined American history in the years before the First World War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introducti ...Show more
Seven Little Australians: Popular Penguins by Ethel Turner
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Judy's father, Captain Woolcot, found his vivacious, cheeky daughter impossible - but seven children were really too much for him and most of the time they ran wild at their rambling riverside home, Misrule. Step inside and meet them all - dreamy Meg, and Pip, daring Judy, naughty Bunty, Nell, Baby and ...Show more
Steppenwolf: Popular Penguins by Hesse Hermann
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'The unhappiness that I need and long for . . . is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.' Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw hi ...Show more