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Therese Raquin (Popular Penguin) by Emile Zola
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins
In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband's earthy friend Laurent, but their animal passion for ea ...Show more
Three Men in a Boat: Popular Penguins by Jerome K. Jerome
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmorency? However, as J. discovers, there is more to life on the waves than meets the eye - including navigational challenges, culinary disasters, and heroic battles with swans ...Show more
Three Tales From the Arabian Nights: Popular Penguins by Malcolm C. Lyons
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Once upon a time, the name Baghdad conjured up visions of the most magical, romantic city on earth, where flying carpets carried noble thieves off on wonderful adventures, and vicious viziers and beautiful princesses mingled with wily peasants and powerful genies. This is the world of the Arabian Nights ...Show more
To the Lighthouse: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"To the Lighthouse" is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel and is widely acknowledged as being among the greatest literary achievements of this century. It is also the most popular of all her novels. It is set on a Hebridean island where the Ramsay family as well as various guests enjoy the long summer in each ...Show more
Treasure Island: Popular Penguins by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins
Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality, Long John Silver. But Treasure Islandhas also had great appeal for adult readers and was admired by Mark Twain, Rudyar ...Show more
Tropical Issue (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dorothy Dunnett
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Rita Geddes is a dyslexic make-up artist whose appearance seems to change with the weather. She is called to Johnson Johnson's apartment to fix the make-up of the famous Natalie Sheridan. However, Johnson, who is seemingly recovering from an accident, which turns out to be a murder attempt, is also pres ...Show more
Usage & Abusage by Eric Partridge
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Usage and Abusage is Penguin's classic linguistic reference book that not only tells you how to use English correctly, but is also a declaration of war on its misuse. Covering grammatical problems, words that are commonly abused and confused, matters of style, as well as providing advice on how to commu ...Show more
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their hedonistic whims and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. ...Show more
Washington Square (Popular Penguin) by Henry James
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. Torn between her desire to win her father's love and approval and her passion for the first man who has ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Popular Penguins by Shirley Jackson
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
What is History?: Popular Penguins by E. H. Carr
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Since its first publication in 1961 E.H. Carr's What is History? has established itself as the classic introduction to the subject. Ranging across topics such as historical objectivity, society and the individual, the nature of causation, and the possibility of progress, Carr delivered an incisive text ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Perhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness, however, when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy lord, sending Heathcliff on a li ...Show more