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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The Penguin English Library Edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "What do you think that is?' she asked...
The Republic

The Republic

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Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato's Republic has shaped Western thought for...
A Perfect Spy

A Perfect Spy

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Considered a masterpiece of the genre, le Carre's preeminent spy novel is new to Penguin Modern Classics Magnus...
Personal Writings

Personal Writings

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side,...
The Explorers: Text Classics

The Explorers: Text Classics

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Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving...
After Midnight

After Midnight

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Author: Irmgard Keun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, this is the masterpiece from the author of Child of All...
Orwell and the Dispossessed

Orwell and the Dispossessed

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An expansive collection of George Orwell's writing on the down and out The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in...
Optimism Over Despair

Optimism Over Despair

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Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A new Penguin Special on the problems of the world and how to prepare for tomorrow - from the...
Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men

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Author: John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is one of the best loved novellas of all time. Two drifters -...
Six Thinking Hats: Popular Penguins

Six Thinking Hats: Popular Penguins

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Author: Edward de Bono Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats is the groundbreaking psychology manual that has inspired organisations and individuals all...
The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

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Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 A 75th anniversary edition of Steinbeck's undisputed masterpiece, a panoramic vision of the betrayal of the American dream...
Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for...
Flatland

Flatland

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Author: Edwin Abbott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A fantastically unique work of science fiction that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social...
The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge

The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge

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Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledge is the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history...
Labyrinths: Popular Penguins

Labyrinths: Popular Penguins

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Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities...
The Go-between

The Go-between

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Author: L. P. Hartley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with an introduction...
Burmese Days

Burmese Days

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Orwell's first novel, a devastating account of colonial rule in Burma, in a stunning new cover look for his...
The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel

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Author: Baroness Baroness Orczy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series. 'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel...
A Fortunate Life

A Fortunate Life

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Author: A B Facey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A true classic of Australian literature, Facey's simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of...
The Collected Poems

The Collected Poems

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Author: Robert Frost Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Frost was the first American poet who could honestly be reckoned a master-poet by world standards' Robert Graves No...
The Testaments: The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

The Testaments: The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

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Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades-...
Animal Farm

Animal Farm

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' Drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm has...
On Anarchism

On Anarchism

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Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 What is Anarchism? Anarchism is a radical scepticism about structures of domination, authority and hierarchy throughout human life, from...
Summer Will Show

Summer Will Show

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Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Sylvia Townsend Warner's tale of a Victorian woman's love for her husband's mistress is an extraordinary re-imagining of...
The Pearl

The Pearl

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Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A brilliant novella that is a fable about the dangers of unexpected wealth by great American novelist, John...
Another Country

Another Country

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Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:
Mrs Osmond

Mrs Osmond

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Author: John Banville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A rich historical novel about the aftermath of betrayal, from the Booker prize-winner. Having fled Rome and a stultifying...
The Outsider

The Outsider

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus 'Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I...
The Prince

The Prince

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Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas...
The Island of Doctor Moreau

The Island of Doctor Moreau

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Author: H.G. Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A crazed vivisectionist engineers a new super-breed of monstrous 'Beast Men' on a remote Pacific island, in H. G. Wells's Victorian...
The Moon and the Bonfires

The Moon and the Bonfires

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Author: Cesare Pavese Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Pavese's seductive masterpiece of memory and betrayal in the Italian countryside, in a vivid new translation by Tim Parks...
The Joyous Science

The Joyous Science

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Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 New to Penguin Classics, The Joyous Science is Nietzsche's most personal book - and one of his best The...
The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories Cla

The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories Cla

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Author: Henry Lawson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his...
A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

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Author: Daniel Defoe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 With new introduction by Cynthia Wall, chronology further reading, glossary, and explanatory notes. In 1665 the plague swept through...
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure

The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure

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Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The second volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. Michel...
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984

Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984

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Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The Essential Works...
A Room with a View

A Room with a View

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Author: E. M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The Penguin English Library Edition of A Room with a View by E. M. Forster'"But you do," he...
Howards End

Howards End

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Author: E. M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster 'The poor cannot always reach those...
The God Delusion: 10th Anniversary Edition

The God Delusion: 10th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Richard Dawkins (Oxford University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The international bestselling broadside that has taken the world by storm The God Delusion caused a sensation...
A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay

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Author: E. M. Cioran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Witty and nihilistic essays from one of Central Europe's most remarkable philosophers A Short History of Decay (1949)...
A Month in Siena

A Month in Siena

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Author: Hisham Matar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 A moving reflection on the intersection of life and art, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return. Shortly...
The Odyssey: Translated by Robert Fitzgerald

The Odyssey: Translated by Robert Fitzgerald

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Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones Penelope has been waiting for...
Utopia

Utopia

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Author: Thomas More Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 New to the Penguin Pocket Hardbacks series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound editions In...
The Enchanted April

The Enchanted April

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Author: Elizabeth von Arnim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A funny and charming novel about four women in Italy, introduced by Salley Vickers A notice in The...
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium

Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium

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Author: Seneca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', the Stoic philosophy called for the restraint of animal...
Frankenstein

Frankenstein

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Author: Mary Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the...
Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

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Author: Maurice Leblanc Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The inspiration for the new Netflix series, Lupin, starring Omar Sy. The inspiration for the new Netflix series,Lupin, starring...
To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird

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Author: Harper Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The bestselling, Pulitzer prize-winning classic. 'ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN' 'Shoot all the bluejays you want,...