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Hard Times: Popular Penguins by Charles Dickens
$13.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young adult minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of ...Show more
Heart of Darkness: Popular Penguins by Joseph Conrad
$15.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradIn Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the lo ...Show more
I, Claudius: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves
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Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clarity and meticulous realism. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is a includes an introduction by Barry Unsworth.Despised for his weakness and regarded by ...Show more
Inferno: Popular Penguins by Dante Alighieri
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Welcome to hell.On Good Friday evening in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquaintan ...Show more
Jane Eyre: Popular Penguins by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Charlotte Bronte (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature.The literary heritage of the Bronte sisters entered the treasury of national English culture g ...Show more
Jillaroo: Pink Popular Penguins by Rachael Treasure
$12.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Pink Popular Penguin
After a terrible argument with her father over their family property, 'Waters Meeting', Rebecca Saunders throws her swag in the ute and heads north. A job as a jillaroo takes her into the rowdy world of B&S balls, Bundy rum and boys. When she at last settles down to study at agricultural college, he ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover: Popular Penguins by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with notes by Michael Squires and an introduction by Doris Lessing.Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless ...Show more
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
$14.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | 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
Lavender Keeper: Pink Popular Penguins by Fiona McIntosh
$12.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Pink Popular Penguin
Lavender farmer Luc Bonet is raised by a wealthy Jewish family in the foothills of the French Alps. When the Second World War breaks out he joins the French Resistance, leaving behind his family's fortune, their home overrun by soldiers, their lavender fields in disarray. Lisette Forestier is on a missi ...Show more
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
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
Looking for Alibrandi: Pink Popular Penguins by Melina Marchetta
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Pink Popular Penguin
Josephine Alibrandi is 17 and in her final year of school. Dealing with her mum, the ways of her Nonna and preparing for exams is daunting enough, then real life starts to get in the way of her carefully-made plans. She has to deal with her father being in her life for the first time, falling in love an ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$15.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
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