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The Mission Song by John le Carré
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Category: Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and Congolese warlords, an interpreter finds his conscience re-awakening.Bruno Salvador has worked on clandestine missions before. A highly skilled interpreter, he is no stranger to the Official Secrets Act. But this is the first time he has been asked ...Show more
The Naive and Sentimental Lover by John le Carré
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Category: Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife.Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, b ...Show more
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle Hailed by Dante as "the master of those who know," the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) surveyed every field of learning known to the ancient world and pioneered the sciences of psychology and logic. A disciple of Plato and the tutor to Alexander the Great, Aristot ...Show more
The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories by Henry Lawson
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson has become part of the Australian national psyche, and his short stories and verse have come to affect how Australian's view their country.Yet at his best Lawson transcends even the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears th ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Better Living, Self Help & Personal development | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Utterly unique and beloved around the world, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic essays by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. Telling the story of the prophet Al-Mustafa and his conversations with various acquaintances as he returns home after a long absence, the boo ...Show more
The Prose Edda by Jesse L. Byock, Jesse L Byock
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves ...Show more
The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré
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Category: Spies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triump ...Show more
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' - these are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, o ...Show more
The Sonnets and a Lover's complaint (Clothbound Classic) by William Shakespeare; John Kerrigan (Editor, Introduction by); Coralie Bickford-smith (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful and tactile cloth. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written m ...Show more
The Star-Child by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, f ...Show more