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Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm: Popular Penguins by Stella Gibbons
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, Cold Comfort Farmby Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm... ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
In 1804, while a student at Oxford, Thomas De Quincey was looking for relief from excruciating pain when a college acquaintance recommended opium. "Opium!" De Quincey wrote. "Dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain! I had heard of it as I had of manna or of ambrosia, but no further: how unmeaning ...Show more
Congo Journey (Popular Penguin) by Redmond O'Hanlon
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Congo Journey is a hilarious and daring trip into the heart of darkness. Striking out for the Marxist-Leninist People's Republic of Congo, O'Hanlon takes an unsuspecting friend to hidden Lake Tele in search of Mohele-mbembe, the rarely seen Congo dinosaur. But what they find is not quite what they went ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Geoffrey Robertson's Crimes Against Humanity is a superb and highly influential account of the history of the human rights movement up to the present day. From the French Revolution and the Nuremberg trials to 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, Robertson traces the developing concept of human rights and sho ...Show more
Curly Verse: Selected Poems - Popular Penguins by Michael Leunig
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In this selection of poems covering the period 1972 to 2002. This beautifully elegant volume excludes the cartoon element, focusing on Leunig's brilliant texts, with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy and joyfulness. Michael Leunig pokes fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deplores the idiocy ...Show more
Dangerous Liaisons: Popular Penguins by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Depicting decadence and moral corruption in pre-revolutionary France, Dangerous Liaisons is one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Two aristocrats embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Mar ...Show more
Dark Star Safari (Popular Penguin) by Paul Theroux
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari is a journey overland from Cairo to Cape Town. He travels across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, through Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Encompassing some of the most beautiful landscapes o ...Show more
Dead in the Morning (Popular Penguins Crime) by Margaret Yorke
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Mrs Ludlow is hated because of her arrogance and cruelty towards her children, whose lives she dominates. When a body turns up, all think Mrs Ludlow must be the murder victim. But it is actually her housekeeper who has been found dead. Has a mistake been made and the wrong woman killed? Dr Patrick Grant ...Show more
Death Under Sail (Popular Penguins Crime) by C. P. Snow
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht with a smile on his face and a gunshot through his heart, all six fall under suspicion.
Death at the President's Lodging (Popular Penguins Crime) by Michael Innes
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Inspector Appleby is called to St Anthony's College, where the President has been murdered in his Lodging. Scandal abounds when it becomes clear that the only people with any motive to murder him are the only people who had the opportunity - because the President's Lodging opens off Orchard Ground, whic ...Show more
Delta of Venus: Popular Penguins by Anais Nin
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
An extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the mistress of erotic writing In Delta of Venus, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer se ...Show more