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I, Claudius: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves
$7.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clarity and meticulous realism. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is a includes an introduction by Barry Unsworth.Despised for his weakness and regarded by ...Show more
Inferno: Popular Penguins by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
Jane Eyre: Popular Penguins by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Charlotte Bronte (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature.The literary heritage of the Bronte sisters entered the treasury of national English culture g ...Show more
Journey from Venice: Popular Penguins by Ruth Cracknell
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Category: Travel | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Serene City beckons, promising Paradise regained for Ruth Cracknell and her husband, Eric, as they set forth on a carefully planned holiday. What they are seeking is time. Time to think, time to gaze, time for each other. But from the moment the holiday becomes an uncharted journey, their time is me ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Popular Penguins by George Orwell
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Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A novel by the author of 1984 about a man determined to reject middle-class values who finds living in noble poverty more difficult than expected. Gordon Comstock despises the materialism and shallowness of middle-class life--the worship of money, the striving for dull, stuffy respectability. To live ...Show more
Lucky Jim: Popular Penguins by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.'Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full o ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
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Category: Natural History | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
Notes from Underground: Popular Penguins by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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
Of a Boy: Popular Penguins by Sonya Hartnett
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Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Internationally published author: the US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway and Denmark. Award winning author. The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand, shopping centres an ...Show more
On Natural Selection: Popular Penguins by Charles Darwin
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Category: Science | 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
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
On the Roadby Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road ...Show more