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A Month In The Country: Penguin Essentials by J.L. Carr
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of ren ...Show more
A Passage to India by E M Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to Indiais published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and pr ...Show more
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies.When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, O ...Show more
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'A phalanx of motorcycles came roaring over the hill from the west... the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing. It was like Genghis Khan, Morgan's Raiders, the Wild One and the Rape of Nanking all at once.'In Sep ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that ...Show more
Swallowing Geography by Deborah Levy
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples.
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT ' It is many years since God sent the Tribulation to punish the forebears for their sins, and in the rural settlement of Waknuk David Strorm's father decries any and all blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that David and his cousin Rosalind, have their own secre ...Show more
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith. It originated as an intermittent serial in Punch magazine in 1888-89 and first appeared in book form, with extended text in 1892. The Diary records the daily events in the lives of a London clerk, Charle ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime' Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So ...Show more
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'Obsessed with sex ' said Jassy, 'there's nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I'm a pygmalionist.' In the end we got far more information out of a book called Ducks and Duck Breeding. 'Ducks can only copulate, ' said Linda, after studying this for a while, 'in ...Show more
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Our Kind of Traitor; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. John le Carré's new novel, A Legacy of Spies, is now available.The 50th-anniversary edition of the bestselling novel that launched John ...Show more
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