Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert's legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatch ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
"At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Bront '"-Virginia Woolf "Given the action of Jane Eyre, which is in every sense dramatic, there is a pull, all the same, between action and consciousness." -Raymond Williams "Teaching the true s ...Show more
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: good
"Just before dawn one winter s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea- Gibreel Farishta, India s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices. Washed up, alive, on an English beac ...Show more
Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
Ground-breaking. Original. Heart-rending. Most talked about book in New Zealand, ever. Adapted into a blockbuster movie. Still in print three decades later. Once Were Warriors is one of a dozen classics released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format rea ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look cover for Orwell's timeless satire. '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 ...Show more
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
In this debut novel from acclaimed Booker Prize-winning Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go), post-war Japan serves as the haunting backdrop to a subtle story of memory, suicide, and psychological trauma. Etsuko lives alone in rural England, trying to come to terms with the recent su ...Show more