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Congo Journey (Popular Penguin) by Redmond O'Hanlon
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Congo Journey is a hilarious and daring trip into the heart of darkness. Striking out for the Marxist-Leninist People's Republic of Congo, O'Hanlon takes an unsuspecting friend to hidden Lake Tele in search of Mohele-mbembe, the rarely seen Congo dinosaur. But what they find is not quite what they went ...Show more
Curly Verse: Selected Poems - Popular Penguins by Michael Leunig
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In this selection of poems covering the period 1972 to 2002. This beautifully elegant volume excludes the cartoon element, focusing on Leunig's brilliant texts, with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy and joyfulness. Michael Leunig pokes fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deplores the idiocy ...Show more
Dangerous Liaisons: Popular Penguins by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Depicting decadence and moral corruption in pre-revolutionary France, Dangerous Liaisons is one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Two aristocrats embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Mar ...Show more
Dark Star Safari (Popular Penguin) by Paul Theroux
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari is a journey overland from Cairo to Cape Town. He travels across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, through Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Encompassing some of the most beautiful landscapes o ...Show more
Delta of Venus: Popular Penguins by Anais Nin
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
An extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the mistress of erotic writing In Delta of Venus, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer se ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Count Dracula's castle is a hellish world where night is day, pleasure is pain and the blood of the innocent prized above all. Young Jonathan Harker approaches the gloomy gates with no idea what he is about to face . . . And back in England eerie incidents are unfolding as strange puncture marks appear ...Show more
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Niall Ferguson's Empire is one of the most successful and controversial history books of recent years. Brilliantly re-telling the story of Britain's imperial past, it shows how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers from a rainy island in the North Atlantic came to build the most powerful empire in all h ...Show more
Eva Luna: Popular Penguins by Isabel Allende
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In her opulent novel, Eva Luna, Isabel Allende uses exquisite prose to describe the survival of a young Latin American woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love, during a time of political unrest in South America. Born in the back room of the mansion where her mother is a servan ...Show more
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Everything Is Illuminatedis Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for truth,published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.The inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, starring Elijah WoodA young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching ...Show more
Eye in the Door (Popular Penguin) by Pat Barker
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
London, 1918. Billy Prior works for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men, pacifists, objectors and homosexuals conflict with his duties as a soldier, and before long his sense of himself fragments. Forced to consult the man who helped him before - army ...Show more
Farewell My Lovely: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler This is one of Chandler's most famous crime novels featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, who's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thi ...Show more
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fan sin ...Show more