The Hound of the Baskervilles: Popular Penguins by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body - this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the ...Show more
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly ...Show more
The Big Sleep: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical, world-weary gumshoe. Hired by the crippled General Sternwood to shake off a blackmailer, Marlowe also has to deal with the general's two rebellious daughters, the gamb ...Show more
The Power of One: Popular Penguins by Bryce Courtenay
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: African Collection
First with your head and then with your heart' is advice Peekay, a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world, will carry throughout his life. Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, this one small boy will come to lead all the tribes of Africa. And in a f ...Show more
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Penguin Orange 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
What is History?: Popular Penguins by E. H. Carr
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Since its first publication in 1961 E.H. Carr's What is History? has established itself as the classic introduction to the subject. Ranging across topics such as historical objectivity, society and the individual, the nature of causation, and the possibility of progress, Carr delivered an incisive text ...Show more
High Fidelity: Popular Penguins by Nick Hornby
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll. Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserabl ...Show more
Hell's Angels: Popular Penguins by Hunter S. Thompson
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
From the father of 'gonzo journalism', Hunter S. Thompson's research for Hell's Angels involved more than a year of close association with the outlaws who burned a path through 1960s America, resulting in a masterpiece of underground reportage published in Penguin Modern Classics.'A phalanx of motorcycl ...Show more
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Popular Penguins by William Shakespeare
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
William Shakespeare's sonnets are a beautiful expression of a range of human emotions - from love to grief, anger, jealousy and lust. Including the instantly recognisable 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' as well as a range of other equally moving works, this compilation brings together the compl ...Show more