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The Invisible Man: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | 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 Lady in the Lake: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Lady in the Lakeis a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Troub ...Show more
The Little Prince (Popular Penguins) by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of ext ...Show more
The Long Goodbye (Popular Penguins Crime) by Raymond Chandler
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead. So he turns to his only friend in the world, Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. Marlowe's willing to help a man down on his luck, but Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself dra ...Show more
The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins by Donald Horne
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "This often-oversimplified classic raises difficult questions about Australia's elites that are still worth asking. Are Australians, for example, still 'a largely non-contemplative people' who have "a limited view of the pos ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday: Green Popular Penguins by G.K. Chesterton
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins Ser.
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a s ...Show more
The Penrose Mystery (Popular Penguins Crime) by R. Austin Freeman
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Penrose is an eccentric old man in possession of some dazzling gems, which he won't insure. When Dr Thorndyke is alerted to a burglary at his house, a scrap of paper is found with the word 'lobster' on it and two Latin words, and Penrose has fled in panic after a car accident. The police are clearly mys ...Show more
The Perfect Murder (Popular Penguins Crime) by H. R. F. Keating
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
What terrible luck to be investigating the perfect murder at the beginning of his career with the Bombay Police, thinks Inspector Ghote. First he must deal with the influential tycoon, Lala Verde, his investigation beset on all sides by cunning, disdain and corruption. As if that's not enough, he must t ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who makes a devilish pact never to grow old. Dorian Gray remains forever young, indulging in unspeakable pleasures while his portrait bears the mark of his corrupt existence. A beautifully decadent tale of the destructive allure of perpetual ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Popular Penguins by Muriel Spark
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Category: Paperback Fiction | 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 Prince: Popular Penguins by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Princeis his controversial handbook about the dynamics of power, leadership and strategy. Machiavelli's shrewd argument that sometimes it is necessary to ab ...Show more
The Prisoner of Zenda (Popular Penguins Crime) by Anthony Hope
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
The hero of this classic swashbuckling romance, English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll, is transported from a comfortable life in London to extraordinary adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land. Rassendyll bears an uncanny resemblance to Rudolf Elphberg, who is about to be crowned King of Ruritania; and w ...Show more