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Nineteen Eighty-Four (Popular Penguin) by George Orwell
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very 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
Hell's Angels (Popular Penguin) by Hunter S. Thompson
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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
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 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
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Popular Penguin) by Ken Kesey
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Category: Popular Penguins
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-lovi ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
$19.99 AUD
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
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
The Art of War (Popular Penguin) by Sun-tzu
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also rel ...Show more
The Golden Age by Joan London
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Category: Classic Fiction
It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the ...Show more
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Originals | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders. "
Of Mice and Men (Popular Penguin) by John Steinbeck
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Category: Popular Penguins
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...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
