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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy.Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole's masterful comic novel takes its title, as well asfrom Jonathan Swift ...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
A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather - 'the man from nowhere' - they create a refuge against their family's dark secrets, and against the outside world as it moves towards the First World War. As time passes, their sibling love deepens and crosses into forbidden territory. But ...Show more
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and ...Show more
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Category: Fiction | 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
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
From the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll.Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable ...Show more
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'I'm writing a history of the world,' she says . . . And in the process, my own.' Claudia Hampton is dying. A professional historian in her seventies, she casts her mind back through her own life to identify the currents and winds upon which she has been cast adrift. We see how this strong, independent ...Show more
Out Of Africa: Penguin Essentials by Karen Blixen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought- Here I am, where I ought to be.'From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to ...Show more
The Photograph by Penelope Lively
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'DO NOT OPEN - DESTROY.' The words on the envelope he has found are written in Kath's hand, but Glyn ignores his wife's instruction and breaks the seal. His life unwinds. For he finds a photograph showing Kath holding hands with another man. Unable to forget this long-ago act of betrayal he recklessly ...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