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Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings by George Orwell
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The best of Orwell's journalism, published in one volume for the first time, selected by leading expert Peter Davison. Celebrated for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one of our very best journalists and commentators. Confronting social, political and moral dilemmas head-on, he was fearless in his ...Show more
Shallows by Tim Winton
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Category: FICTION | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
No.1 Australian Bestseller.Author Published Internationally. Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passinig defines the rythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begin ...Show more
The Big Sleep and Other Novels by Raymond Chandler
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Category: CRIME | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel "The Big Sleep" in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colorful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting all the t ...Show more
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
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Category: FICTION | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided to live their lives in a box on the street. Behind their cut-out eyeholes, they sit and watch from behind their four cardboard walls. Our nameless narrator, at first repulsed b ...Show more
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
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Category: FICTION | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced that the disaster is a punishment sent from Heaven, the monk sets out to di ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: And Six Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; Susan Massotty (Translator); Elie Wiesel; Otto Frank (Editor); Mirjam Pressler (Editor)
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the de ...Show more
The Essential Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem "Howl," this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg's poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs. One of the Beat Generation's most renowned poets and writers, Allen Gi ...Show more
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powe ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerv ...Show more
The Harp in the South Trilogy by Ruth Park
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Ruth Park . . . that steady glow at the heart of Australian literature.' Ruth CracknellThree of Ruth Park's best loved books - Missus, The Harp in the Southand Poor Man's Orange- are brought together in this volume, tracing the saga of the Darcy family over thirty years. The story has its beginnings in ...Show more