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Jonah and Co. (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dornford Yates
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Category: Penguin Crime Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
These are some of Dornford Yates' early short stories featuring the comic Pleydell clan, and on publication proved just as successful and popular as Berry and Co. had been. They describe the chaotic journey of the young, well-to-do heroes as they cavort across France, and helped to establish Yates' repu ...Show more
Journey from Venice - A memoir by Ruth Cracknell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
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
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
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Category: Penguin Crime Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
In the early stages of the Second World War, a British engineer and arms expert holds secret talks with the Turkish government. Shaken by an attempt on his life, he departs for home on an Italian freighter, with the knowledge that Nazi assassins aim to prevent his return. Friend and foe become quickly i ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Popular Penguins by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
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Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Popular Penguins
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
Lady Audley's Secret (Popular Penguins Crime) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Category: Penguin Crime Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
When his uncle, Sir Michael Audley marries a beautiful and enigmatic young woman, Richard suppresses his misgivings. But the strange behaviours of Lady Audley and the suspicious disappearance of his friend, George Talboys, lead him to explore her mysterious past - with grave consequences.
Lady Chatterley's Lover: Popular Penguins by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with notes by Michael Squires and an introduction by Doris Lessing.Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless ...Show more
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
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Category: Penguin Crime Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
The streets are seething with barely concealed menace, threatening to explode with the primal rage and desires of the hoodlums, hookers, transvestites, alcoholics and homosexuals who call New York home. Here, life is raw, love is brutal, and one must fight to survive. Banned by British courts in 1967, a ...Show more
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate: Popular Penguins by Nancy Mitford
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
A sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars. Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, i ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
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
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Madame Bovary is the debut Novel of French writer: Gustave Flaubert. published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.