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It's Raining in Mango: Popular Penguins by Thea Astley
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Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
One family traced from the 1860s to the 1980s, beginning with Cornelius Laffey, an Irish-born journalist. Wresting his kin from the easy living of nineteenth-century Sydney, he takes them to northern Queensland where thousands of hopefuls are digging for gold in the mud. The family confronts the horror ...Show more
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
The Gonzo memoir from one of the most influential voices in American literature, Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Hunter S. Thompson's life as a rebel--from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flaunting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, a ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr J ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay.Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman ...Show more
Monkey Grip (Popular Penguin) by Helen Garner
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Gripis regarded as a masterpiece--the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music, friendships, chi ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
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Category: Classics | 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: Classics | 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: Classics | 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
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | 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
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Popular Penguins by Ken Kesey
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-lovi ...Show more
Our Sunshine: Popular Penguins by Robert Drewe
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Ned Kelly's reputation as an outlaw is growing. To the masses he's a folk hero, but to the Establishment he's the most wanted man in the British Empire--by Royal decree the only person that everyone is permitted to kill. When the authorities bring in an army of police to catch him, Ned plans a showdown ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Pride and PrejudiceBy Jane AustenElizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: ...Show more