The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Popular Penguins by Muriel Spark
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime' Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So ...Show more
The Plague: Popular Penguins by Albert Camus
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos is an astonishing grand tour of the universe and the best layman's guide to current thinking on 'how everything works'. This rollercoaster ride explores the mysteries of space and time; asks questions about the nature of reality, dark matter, space warps and wiggl ...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
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea: Popular Penguins by Randolph Stow
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite older cousin Rick leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. When Rick returns several years later, he has changed and the old merry-go-round that represents Rob's dream of utopia ...Show more
To the Lighthouse: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"To the Lighthouse" is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel and is widely acknowledged as being among the greatest literary achievements of this century. It is also the most popular of all her novels. It is set on a Hebridean island where the Ramsay family as well as various guests enjoy the long summer in each ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Reading Level: near fine
'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' ..... Gabriel García Márquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid, energetic, tender and unfor ...Show more
Treasure Island: Popular Penguins by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality, Long John Silver. But Treasure Islandhas also had great appeal for adult readers and was admired by Mark Twain, Rudyar ...Show more
The Prophet: Popular Penguins by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"The Prophet, a bestseller around the world and translated into over twenty languages, is the best-known and best-loved of Kahlil Gibran's many writings. Inspired largely by the beauty and timelessness of nature, The Prophet speaks of love and marriage, joy and sorrow, reason and passion, beauty and dea ...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
Around the World in Eighty Days: Popular Penguins by Jules Verne
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"To go around the world...in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available, was not only impossible, it was madness" One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he ...Show more
Pygmalion: Popular Penguins by Bernard Shaw
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
A barbed attack on the British class system, Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his ...Show more