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1984 by George Orwell
$15.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su ...Show more
A Confederacy of Dunces: Popular Penguins by John Kennedy Toole
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
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: Crime/Thriller | 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 Handful of Dust: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction | 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
A Passage To India: Popular Penguins by E. M. Forster
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
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
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller | 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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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
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 Study in Scarlet (Popular Penguins Crime) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Crime/Thriller | 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: Crime/Thriller | 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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Category: Travel | Series: Popular Penguins
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
ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins by C. E. W. Bean
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Category: Military | Series: War Popular Penguins
The First World War was the blooding of the young Australian nation. Five years after Australia's overwhelming response to Britain's declaration of war, nearly a fifth of the 330,000 Australians who served overseas lay dead. Charles Bean witnessed it all. Appointed official war correspondent with the Au ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Popular Penguins by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author: Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and enemies) ...Show more