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Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
The streets are seething with barely concealed menace, threatening to explode with the primal rage and desires of the hoodlums, hookers, transvestites, alcoholics and homosexuals who call New York home. Here, life is raw, love is brutal, and one must fight to survive. Banned by British courts in 1967, a ...Show more
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate (Pink Popular Penguin) by Nancy Mitford
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Category: Classics | Series: Pink Popular Penguin
Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate is a wickedly funny satire, brilliantly lampooning upper-class society. When Polly, a beautiful aristocrat, declares her love for her married, lecherous uncle - who also happens to be her mother's former lover - she sparks off a scandal that has both disastrous and ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr J ...Show more
Madame Bovary Pink Popular Penguin Edition by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Paperback Fiction | Series: Pink Popular Penguin
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her a ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay.Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman ...Show more
Metamorphosis: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the ...Show more
Miami Blues (Popular Penguins Crime) by Charles Willeford
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Ex-con Freddy 'Junior' Frenger lands in Miami with three stolen wallets and plans for a new life of crime, and leaves the airport with a snatched suitcase and the corpse of a Hare Krishna behind him. Homicide detective Hoke Moseley is soon on his case, chasing the utterly immoral Junior and his hooker g ...Show more
Monkey Grip (Popular Penguin) by Helen Garner
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Gripis regarded as a masterpiece--the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music, friendships, chi ...Show more
Moonstone (Popular Penguins Crime) by Wilkie Collins
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A priceless yellow diamond, pillaged from an Indian Temple is presented to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. But when the diamond is again stolen that very same night, no one is above suspicion. A chain of horrific events seem intent to ruin those surrounding the birthday girl, leaving Rachel ...Show more
Mother Tongue - The English Language by Bill Bryson
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent--brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), t ...Show more
Mr J. G. Reeder Returns (Popular Penguins Crime) by Edgar Wallace
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
On the surface, J.G. Reeder is a shabby little police officer with red hair and weak eyes, but underneath his timid appearance lies a razor-sharp mind and the ability to think like a criminal. Here are two thrilling episodes torn from his casebook. In 'The Treasure House', will Mr Reeder discover a conn ...Show more