The Big Sleep: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical, world-weary gumshoe. Hired by the crippled General Sternwood to shake off a blackmailer, Marlowe also has to deal with the general's two rebellious daughters, the gamb ...Show more
The Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins by Robert Drewe
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A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Popular Penguins by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttonauthor: F. Scott FitzgeraldA man, "born under unusual circumstances," ages backwards, through a life that is as unusual as could be.
The Hound of the Baskervilles: Popular Penguins by Arthur Conan Doyle
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"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body - this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the ...Show more
The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins by Donald Horne
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Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "This often-oversimplified classic raises difficult questions about Australia's elites that are still worth asking. Are Australians, for example, still 'a largely non-contemplative people' who have "a limited view of the pos ...Show more
The Pearl: Popular Penguins by John Steinbeck
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When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world', he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and violence the pearl arouses in him and ...Show more
The Pit and the Pendulum: Popular Penguins by Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe is not only the finest, most terrifying writer of Gothic horror tales ever to have lived, he also wrote extraordinary poems. Here, Poe writes of the torments of ingenious, malevolent persecutors and of a mind's own sickening madness. The Pit and the Pendulum is a collection of works from ...Show more
The Prince: Popular Penguins by Niccolo Machiavelli
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As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Princeis his controversial handbook about the dynamics of power, leadership and strategy. Machiavelli's shrewd argument that sometimes it is necessary to ab ...Show more
The Psychology of Love: Popular Penguins by Sigmund Freud
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Freud's landmark writings on love and sexuality, including the famous case study of Dora newly translated and in one volume for the first time This original collection brings together the most important writings on the psychology of love by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. Sigmund F ...Show more
The War of the Worlds: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered near London. Armed with just a white flag, the locals approach the mysterious object only to be burned alive by heat-rays as horrific, tentacled invaders emerge. Soon, the whole of human civilization is under thre ...Show more
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
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Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorc es with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on ...Show more
Treasure Island: Popular Penguins by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality, Long John Silver. But Treasure Islandhas also had great appeal for adult readers and was admired by Mark Twain, Rudyar ...Show more