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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don?t let it happen,? he concluded. 'It depends on you.?In an age of inescapable sur ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Classic Fiction
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic dystopian taleOne of Britain's most popular novels, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party. Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; Margaret Atwood (Introduction by)
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Category: Classic Fiction
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. - "After Ford" - in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and operant conditioning that combine to profoun ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto (Popular Penguin) by Karl Marx
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Category: Popular Penguins | 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 Penguin) by Alain de Botton
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: 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
Meditations (Popular Penguin) by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay.Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman ...Show more
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters - shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by p ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Category: Classic Fiction
All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others. Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the ...Show more
Frankenstein (Popular Penguin) by Mary Shelley
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Crime and punishment is probably Dostoevsky's most read and known novel and one of the most famous literary works of all time. Published in installments in 1866 in the journal «Russkij vestnik» («The Russian Messenger»), it is the story of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, which the author describes in a l ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale - Vintage Classics by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Handmaid's Tale
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) "While others watched the TV series I re-read the book. When The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, reviewers compared Margaret Atwood unfavourably to male writers of science fiction. ...Show more
One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Popular Penguin) by Gabriel García Márquez
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Penguin's commemorative hardback reissue of One Hundred Years of Solitudeby late Nobel laureate and author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a timeless classic and the perfect Christmas gift for any booklover.Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories ...Show more
