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The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea: Popular Penguins by Randolph Stow
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite older cousin Rick leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. When Rick returns several years later, he has changed and the old merry-go-round that represents Rob's dream of utopia ...Show more
The Mind of God: Popular Penguins by Paul Davies
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Category: Science | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Paul Davies' The Mind of God is a scientific search for the meaning of the universe. Ranging across the cosmos, Davies explores the origin of the universe, the laws of nature, mathematics, the beginning and end of everything. Ultimately, he seeks to provide a glimpse the meaning of it all. This is a boo ...Show more
The Plague: Popular Penguins by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Popular Penguins by Muriel Spark
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins 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 Prophet: Popular Penguins by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Spirituality/Religion | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"The Prophet, a bestseller around the world and translated into over twenty languages, is the best-known and best-loved of Kahlil Gibran's many writings. Inspired largely by the beauty and timelessness of nature, The Prophet speaks of love and marriage, joy and sorrow, reason and passion, beauty and dea ...Show more
The Psychology of Love: Popular Penguins by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Psychology | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Freud's landmark writings on love and sexuality, including the famous case study of Dora newly translated and in one volume for the first time This original collection brings together the most important writings on the psychology of love by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. Sigmund F ...Show more
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: Popular Penguins by Simon Winchester
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Simon Winchester'sThe Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an extraordinary friendship in the nineteenth century. It is the tale of James Murray, the compiler of the first Oxford English Dictionary, and his most valued helper- ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps: Popular Penguins by John Buchan
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Richard Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat, and returns la ...Show more
The Trial: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Trial (Der Process in German) is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavi ...Show more
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorc es with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on ...Show more
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Popular Penguins by L. Frank Baum
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum. The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone. The novel is one of the best-kn ...Show more
To the Lighthouse: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
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"To the Lighthouse" is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel and is widely acknowledged as being among the greatest literary achievements of this century. It is also the most popular of all her novels. It is set on a Hebridean island where the Ramsay family as well as various guests enjoy the long summer in each ...Show more