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The Call of the Wild by Jack London
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Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck mus ...Show more
The Chrysalids (Popular Penguins) by John Wyndham
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Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God's creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto: Popular Penguins by Karl Marx
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Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to ignite violent debate about class and capitalism today.
The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. Fro ...Show more
The Garden Party and Other Stories (Popular Penguins) by Katherine Mansfield
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: Very Good
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emo ...Show more
The Go-Between: Popular Penguins by L. P. Hartley
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend's beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in he ...Show more
The Great Gatsby: Popular Penguins by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne, his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whispe ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Literary/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 Jungle Book: Popular Penguins by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: General Fiction | 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 Little Prince: Popular Penguins by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of ext ...Show more
The Periodic Table: Popular Penguins by Primo Levi
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Category: Science/Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who makes a devilish pact never to grow old. Dorian Gray remains forever young, indulging in unspeakable pleasures while his portrait bears the mark of his corrupt existence. A beautifully decadent tale of the destructive allure of perpetual ...Show more