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The Jungle Book: Popular Penguins by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades, Mowgli encounters such unforgettable creatures as Bagheera, the graceful black panther, and Shere Khan, the tiger with th ...Show more
The Little Prince (Popular Penguins) by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins
Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of ext ...Show more
The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins by Donald Horne
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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 Man Who Was Thursday: Green Popular Penguins by G.K. Chesterton
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Green Popular Penguins Ser.
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a s ...Show more
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea: Popular Penguins by Randolph Stow
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite older cousin Rick leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. When Rick returns several years later, he has changed and the old merry-go-round that represents Rob's dream of utopia ...Show more
The Mind of God: Popular Penguins by Paul Davies
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Category: Science | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Paul Davies' The Mind of God is a scientific search for the meaning of the universe. Ranging across the cosmos, Davies explores the origin of the universe, the laws of nature, mathematics, the beginning and end of everything. Ultimately, he seeks to provide a glimpse the meaning of it all. This is a boo ...Show more
The Periodic Table: Popular Penguins by Primo Levi
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who makes a devilish pact never to grow old. Dorian Gray remains forever young, indulging in unspeakable pleasures while his portrait bears the mark of his corrupt existence. A beautifully decadent tale of the destructive allure of perpetual ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins
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 Prince: Popular Penguins by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins
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 Prophet: Popular Penguins by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"The Prophet, a bestseller around the world and translated into over twenty languages, is the best-known and best-loved of Kahlil Gibran's many writings. Inspired largely by the beauty and timelessness of nature, The Prophet speaks of love and marriage, joy and sorrow, reason and passion, beauty and dea ...Show more
The Secret History: Popular Penguins by Donna Tartt
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret Historyis a remarkable achievement - incredibly compelling, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college disc ...Show more