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Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
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Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
In the early stages of the Second World War, a British engineer and arms expert holds secret talks with the Turkish government. Shaken by an attempt on his life, he departs for home on an Italian freighter, with the knowledge that Nazi assassins aim to prevent his return. Friend and foe become quickly i ...Show more
Junky by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld o ...Show more
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
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Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
The streets are seething with barely concealed menace, threatening to explode with the primal rage and desires of the hoodlums, hookers, transvestites, alcoholics and homosexuals who call New York home. Here, life is raw, love is brutal, and one must fight to survive. Banned by British courts in 1967, a ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Madame Bovary is the debut Novel of French writer: Gustave Flaubert. published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.
Metamorphosis: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the ...Show more
Miami Blues (Popular Penguins Crime) by Charles Willeford
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Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Ex-con Freddy 'Junior' Frenger lands in Miami with three stolen wallets and plans for a new life of crime, and leaves the airport with a snatched suitcase and the corpse of a Hare Krishna behind him. Homicide detective Hoke Moseley is soon on his case, chasing the utterly immoral Junior and his hooker g ...Show more
Monkey Grip (Popular Penguin) by Helen Garner
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Gripis regarded as a masterpiece--the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music, friendships, chi ...Show more
Moonstone (Popular Penguins Crime) by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A priceless yellow diamond, pillaged from an Indian Temple is presented to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. But when the diamond is again stolen that very same night, no one is above suspicion. A chain of horrific events seem intent to ruin those surrounding the birthday girl, leaving Rachel ...Show more
Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales (Popular Penguins Crime) by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A mother and daughter are bafflingly and brutally murdered inside a locked room on Rue Morgue, and C. Auguste Dupin must apply his fine detective skills to piece together the mystery. Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales.
Notes from Underground: Popular Penguins by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
On the Roadby Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road ...Show more