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The Chrysalids (Popular Penguins) by John Wyndham
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Category: Popular Penguin Classics | 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 Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Popular Penguins by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Popular Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttonauthor: F. Scott FitzgeraldA man, "born under unusual circumstances," ages backwards, through a life that is as unusual as could be.
The Fight (Popular Penguin) by Norman Mailer
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In 1974 in Kinshasa, Za re, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible "professor of boxing." The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a commentato ...Show more
The Garden Party and Other Stories (Popular Penguins) by Katherine Mansfield
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Category: Popular Penguin Classics | 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 Getting of Wisdom: Popular Penguins by Henry Handel Richardson
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is ...Show more
The Go-Between: Popular Penguins by L. P. Hartley
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Category: Popular Penguin Classics | 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 Harp in the South: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
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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 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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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 Inheritance of Loss: Popular Penguins by Kiran Desai
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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 Jungle Book: Popular Penguins by Rudyard Kipling
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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 Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes): Popular Penguins by Henri Alain-Fournier
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Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house and a beautiful girl hidden within it, he has been changed forever. ...Show more