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Shakespeare's Sonnets (Popular Penguins) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
William Shakespeare's sonnets are a beautiful expression of a range of human emotions - from love to grief, anger, jealousy and lust. Including the instantly recognisable 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' as well as a range of other equally moving works, this compilation brings together the compl ...Show more
Sheltering Sky (Popular Penguin) by Paul Bowles
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
The Moresbys are Americans abroad, but some journeys are best left unmade. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents of an ...Show more
Six Easy Pieces by Richard Phillips Feynman
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Richard Feynman's Six Easy Piecesis the perfect layman's introduction to the mindboggling universe of physics. In Feynman's safe hands, the reader is introduced to the very basics of atoms, energy, force, gravity and quantum behaviour. If the greatest physicist since the Second World War can't explain i ...Show more
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Used successfully by thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world, Six Thinking Hats offers a practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas.Your success in business depends on how you think. "The main difficulty of thinking is ...Show more
Sons For The Return Home (Popular Penguins) by Albert Wendt
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ...Show more
South: The Endurance Expedition: Popular Penguins by Ernest Shackleton
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Sir Ernest Shackleton's South is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. In 1914, Shackleton led a party of men hoping to be the first to traverse the Antarctic, but when their ship became crushed by ice 350 miles from land, the expedition soon became a matter of life and death. This is the ex ...Show more
Steppenwolf: Popular Penguins by Hesse Hermann
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'The unhappiness that I need and long for . . . is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.' Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw hi ...Show more
Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously pursuing an ...Show more
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
"Sophisticated young readers will be awed by the delicate, measured, heartbreaking portrait that emerges." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years, which have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small, unforgiving town and distant ...Show more
Tales of the Unexpected: Popular Penguins by Roald Dahl
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
In this collection of stories, Dahl tantalizes, amuses, and sometimes terrifies readers into a sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. Included in this collection are such notorious gems of the bizarre as "The Second Machine," "Lamb to the Slaughter," "Neck," and "The Landlady." Other stories explor ...Show more
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly ...Show more
The Accidental by Ali Smith
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
The Smart family's lacklustre holiday in Norwich is interrupted by a beguiling stranger called Amber. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering emotions as Amber tramples over family boundaries and forces them to think in an entirely new way. A novel about how seemingly chance encounters irrevoc ...Show more