Scoop: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch ...Show more
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Popular Penguins by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttonauthor: F. Scott FitzgeraldA man, "born under unusual circumstances," ages backwards, through a life that is as unusual as could be.
Civilization and Its Discontents: Popular Penguins by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Daniel Defoe's great masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my h ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good-near fine
In this haunting, magical fairytale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and the Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with poetr ...Show more
Northanger Abbey: Popular Penguins by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Catherine Morland should know better. She's the very ideal of a nice, normal girl. But Catherine is cursed with an overactive imagination. She is also obsessed with lurid Gothic novels, where terrible things happen to the heroine. Which gets her into all sorts of trouble... When Catherine visits Bath an ...Show more
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Popular Penguins by Mark Twain
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
By witnessing a murder, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn find themselves in a series of adventures that lead them to some frightening situations.
Three Men in a Boat: Popular Penguins by Jerome K. Jerome
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmorency? However, as J. discovers, there is more to life on the waves than meets the eye - including navigational challenges, culinary disasters, and heroic battles with swans ...Show more
The Invisible Man: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin, the new guest at The Coach and Horses, is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck mus ...Show more
A Christmas Carol: Popular Penguins by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The classic holiday tale is presented with two other Dickens Christmas stories, "The Chimes" and "The Haunted Man"Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed b ...Show more
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: near fine
Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, La ...Show more