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The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
The Orient Express, the Golden Arrow of Kuala and the Trans-Siberian Express are just some of the trains steaming through Paul Theroux's epic rail journey from London across Europe through India and Asia. This was a journey of discovery made in the mid-seventies, a time before the West had embraced the ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
$14.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Orange Classics | 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
The Harp in the South: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
An Australian classic, this is the story of the Darcy family who live in the Depression era tenements of Surry Hills, Sydney. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops, and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy. ...Show more
The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"An eminent doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question- am I evil, or insane? When the letters from Italian servant to his wife in London suddenly cease, she is convinced he has been murdered. In the darkened bedroom of a mouldering palazzo by the Grand Canal, an English lord sickens and sud ...Show more
The High Window: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The High Window by Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe's client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. Easy. Probably too easy. Unfortunately, each time the Doubloon pops up, so does a murder. That's unlucky f ...Show more
The History of Sexuality Volume 1 by Michel Foucault
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledgeis the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history of sexuality. He argues that the recent explosion of discussion about sex in the West means that, far from being liberated, we are in the process of making a science of sexuality that is devoted t ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles: Popular Penguins by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body - this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the ...Show more
The Inheritance of Loss: Popular Penguins by Kiran Desai
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives a ...Show more
The Invisible Man: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: Penguin Orange 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 Jungle Book: Popular Penguins by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades, Mowgli encounters such unforgettable creatures as Bagheera, the graceful black panther, and Shere Khan, the tiger with th ...Show more
The Lady in the Lake: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 Language Instinct (Popular Penguin) by Steven Pinker
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
Steven Pinker's The Language Instinctpropelled him to worldwide fame in 1994. His groundbreaking book's premise - that language is instinctual rather than acquired - so shook the foundations of biological science that the reverberations are still being felt today.