The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. Fro ...Show more
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer: Popular Penguins by Patrick Suskind
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguin | Reading Level: very good
Patrick Süskind's Perfume follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, abandoned at birth in the slums of eighteenth-century Paris, but blessed with an outstanding sense of smell. This gift enables Jean-Baptiste to master the art of perfume making, but one scent evades him- that of a virgin, whom he mu ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics
The four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father has been drafted to fight in the Civil War. As the four come of age and their distinct personalities develop, destiny has contrasting fortunes in store for them - in the form ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house?He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth protrude menacingly from his mouth in clouds of rancid breath... Yet even Count Dracula?s unnerving appearance and the frightened reaction of the local peasants fail to warn Jonathan H ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Classics
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For ...Show more
The Secret Garden (Signature Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Classics | Series: Children's Signature Classics Ser.
At the turn of the 20th century, Mary Lennox is a neglected and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in British India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her and made an effort to ignore her. She is cared for primarily by native servants, who allow her to become spoilt, demanding and self-centred. Aft ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter (Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Flexibound Editions Ser.
Themes: Hi-Lo, adapted classics, low level classics. Hester Prynne must be punished. Why won't she name her baby's father? The vengeful Puritans of Boston demand an answer. Can the new doctor in town unlock the mystery of the shameful secret? Hester's gentle pastor seems unable- or unwilling- to give he ...Show more
Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
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Category: Popular Penguins
Ground-breaking. Original. Heart-rending. Most talked about book in New Zealand, ever. Adapted into a blockbuster movie. Still in print three decades later. Once Were Warriors is one of a dozen classics released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format rea ...Show more
Watership Down (HB) by Parkins Richard Adams David
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Category: Classics
Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - including this irresistible edition of Watership Down. Be cunning, and full of tricks. Fiver is very worried. He senses something terrible is about to happen to the warren, the only ho ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto: Popular Penguins by Karl Marx
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to ignite violent debate about class and capitalism today.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret Historyis a remarkable achievement - incredibly compelling, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college disc ...Show more
Banjo Paterson Complete Poems by Banjo Paterson
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Category: Classics | Series: A&R Classics
When a young man submitted a set of verses to the Bulletin in 1889 under the pseudonym 'The Banjo', it was the beginning of an enduring tradition. Today Banjo Paterson is still one of Australia's best-loved poets. This complete collection of his verse shows the bush balladeer at his very best with favou ...Show more