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| "The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell by Dante Alighieri (Paperback, 1950)" |
| "Guided by the poet Virgil Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and pagans to gluttons criminals and seducers - who tell of their sad fates and predict events still to come in Dante's life In this first part of his Divine Comedy Dante fused satire and humour with intellect and soaring passion to create an immortal Christian allegory of mankind's search for self-knowledge and spiritual enlightenment"
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| "The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives by Plutarch (Paperback, 1960)" |
| "Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens from the legendary days of Theseus the city's founder through Solon Themistocles Aristides Cimon Pericles Nicias and Alcibiades to the razing of its walls by Lysander"
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| "The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus (Paperback, 1977)" |
| "The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an introduction notes and glossary written in collaboration with WB Stanford in Penguin ClassicsIn the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos As they move from darkness to light from rage to self-governance from primitive ritual to civilized institution their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration In Agamemnon a king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family culminating in a terrible act of retribution; The Libation Bearers deals with the aftermath of Clytemnestra's regicide as her son Orestes sets out to avenge his father's death; and in The Eumenides Orestes is tormented by supernatural powers that can never be appeased Forming an elegant and subtle discourse on the emergence of Athenian democracy out of a period of chaos and destruction The Oresteia is a compelling tragedy of the tensions between our obligations to our families and the laws that bind us together as a societyAeschylus (525-456 BC) was born near Athens He wrote more than seventy plays of which seven have survived all translated for Penguin Classics The Supplicants The Persians Seven Against Thebes Prometheus Bound Agamemnon The Libation Bearers and The EumenidesIf you enjoyed The Oresteia you might like Euripides' Medea and Other Plays also available in Penguin Classics'Conveys more vividly and powerfully than any of the ten competitors I have consulted the eternal power of this masterpiece a triumph'Bernard Levin'How satisfying to read at last a modern translation which is rooted in Greek feeling and Greek thought both the stature and the profound instinctive genius of Aeschylus are recognised'Mary Renault author of The King Must Die"
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| "Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources by Asser (Paperback, 1983)" |
| "Asser's Life of King Alfred written in 893 is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings Composed by a monk of St David's in Wales who became Bishop of Sherborne in Alfred's service and worked with him in his efforts to revive religion and learning in his kingdom this life is among the earliest surviving royal biographies It is an admiring account of King Alfred's life written in absorbing detail - chronicling his battles against Viking invaders and his struggle to increase the strength and knowledge of his people and to unite his people at a time of conflict uncertainty and war"
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| "Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Erasmus of Rotterdam (c 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential Praise of Folly written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More is Erasmus's best-known work Its dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire is narrated by a personification of Folly dressed as a jester who celebrates youth pleasure drunkenness and sexual desire and goes on to lambast human pretensions foibles and frailties to mock theologians and monks and to praise the 'folly' of simple Christian piety Erasmus's wit wordplay and wisdom made the book an instant success but it also attracted what may have been sales-boosting criticism The Letter to Maarten van Dorp which is a defence of his ideas and methods is also included"
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| "Early Greek Philosophy by Jonathan Barnes (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build Yet the importance of the Pre-Socratics thinkers lies less in their influence - great though that was - than in their astonishing intellectual ambition and imaginative reach Zeno's dizzying 'proofs' that motion is impossible; the extraordinary atomic theories of Democritus; the haunting and enigmatic epigrams of Heraclitus; and the maxims of Alcmaeon fragmentary as they often are the thoughts of these philosophers seem strikingly modern in their concern to forge a truly scientific vocabulary and way of reasoning"
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| "The Penguin Map of the World by Michael Middleditch (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "The award-winning bestselling Penguin Map of the World by Michael Middleditch Clear colourful and crammed with information reflecting up-to-date world wide political changes The Penguin Map of the World is a unique concept in maps For the first time Michael Middleditch's revised third edition includes all the flags of the world and updated political boundaries The perfect travelling companion this clever guide is light and slim enough to slip easily into a pocket or small bag yet packs in a wealth of invaluable informationFor many years Michael Middleditch was chief cartographer at Geographia He created the Mapguides especially for Penguin and there are four award-winning and highly successful titles in the series New York Paris London and the Map of the World"
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| "The Accidental by Ali Smith (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "The Accidental is Ali Smith's dazzling novel about a family holiday and a stranger who upends it Arresting and wonderful The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer There a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing all sorts of unexpected gifts trampling over family boundaries and sending each of the Smarts scurrying from the dark into the lightA novel about the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves The Accidental explores the nature of truth the role of fate and the power of storytelling'A beguiling page-turner a brilliant creation To read The Accidental is to be excited from first to last' Independent'Joyous a shot across the bows writing as rapture as giddy delight' The Times'Brilliant and engaging frequently hilarious Smith makes one look at the world afresh' Sunday Telegraph"
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| "Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Bleeding Heart Square is a tense historical thriller from the bestselling author of The Ashes of London1934 LondonInto the decaying cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square steps aristocratic Lydia Langstone fleeing an abusive marriage However unknown to Lydia a dark mystery haunts Bleeding Heart Square What happened to Miss Penhow the middle-aged spinster who owns the house and who vanished four years earlier? Why is a seedy plain-clothes policeman obsessively watching the square? What is making struggling journalist Rory Wentwood so desperate to contact Miss Penhow?And why are parcels of rotting hearts being sent to Joseph Serridge the last person to see Miss Penhow alive?"
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| "Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum visits Dar-es-Salaam arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees the Mediterranean for the first time) At every encounter with a new culture Kapuscinski plunges in curious and observant thirsting to understand its history its thought its people And he reads Herodotus so much that he often feels he is embarking on two journeys - the first his assignment as a reporter the second following Herodotus&39; expeditions"
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| "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" |
| "Tucker Max drinks to excess at inappropriate times disregards social norms indulges every whim takes no responsibility for his actions rebels against any authority mocks idiots and posers sleeps with more women than is safe or reasonable and generally just acts like an asshole I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell contains everything the modern-day bounder that is Tucker Max has written since he started sharing his depraved reality with an audience of millions"
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| "The Language of Things by Deyan Sudjic (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "In The Language of Things Deyan Sudjic Director of the Design Museum decodes the things around us their hidden meanings our relationship with them how they shape our lives and why we desire them Design is everywhere It seduces pleases and inspires us It makes us part with our money It defines who we think we are An iPhone an anglepoise lamp a Picasso a banknote an Armani suit a William Morris textile a Lucky Strike packet a spacecraft - every object tells a story And understanding their stories offers us a whole new way of seeing the world &39;Articulate and wonderfully knowledgeable for anyone who takes an interest in the world around us&39; Time Out &39;A nightmare vision of a world drowning in objects witty well observed and wide-ranging&39; Guardian &39;An elegant witty and free-ranging survey from Thomas Chippendale&39;s ponderous 18th-century manor-house furnishings to Jonathan Ive&39;s sprightly Macintosh iBooks&39; Daily Telegraph &39;Lively engaging&39; Evening Standard &39;Readable sharp and worthwhile&39; Financial Times Director of the Design Museum Deyan Sudjic was born in London of Yugoslav parents He is a former architecture critic for the Observer and a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art Sudjic was Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002 and is author of The Edifice Complex the much-praised 100-Miles City the best-selling Architecture Pack The Language of Things and monographs on John Pawson Ron Arad and Richard Rogers"
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| "The Secret Rooms: A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death by Catherine Bailey (Paperback,..." |
| "A castle filled with intrigue a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland and one of Britain's wealthiest men ended his days virtually alone lying on a makeshift bed in a dank cramped suite of rooms in the servants' quarters of his own home Belvoir Castle in LeicestershireFor weeks as his health deteriorated his family his servants - even the King's doctor - pleaded with him to come out but he refusedAfter his death his son and heir Charles the 10th Duke of Rutland ordered that the rooms be locked up and they remained untouched for sixty yearsWhat lay behind this extraordinary set of circumstances? For the first time in The Secret Rooms Catherine Bailey unravels a complex and compelling tale of love honour and betrayal played out in the grand salons of Britain's stately homes at the turn of the twentieth century and on the battlefields of the Western Front At its core is a secret so dark that it consumed the life of the man who fought to his death to keep it hidden This extraordinary mystery from the author of Black Diamonds perfect for lovers of Downton Abbey Brideshead Revisited and The Suspicions of Mr WhicherPraise for The Secret Rooms'Reads like the best kind of mystery story It is a tale of mistresses and heirlooms cowardice and connivance and a deeply dysfunctional familygripping' Sunday Times'Astonishingjaw-droppingIt would spoil the book if I revealed the whole works suffice it to saywhat a family' Sunday Telegraph'An extraordinary detective operation' John Julius NorwichCatherine Bailey is the author of Black Diamonds She read history at Oxford University and is a successful award-winning television producer and director making a range of critically acclaimed documentary films inspired by her interest in twentieth century history She lives in West London"
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| "Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal is a darkly compelling novel that explores the taboo subject of pupilteacher relationships obsession and betrayal From the first day that the beguiling Sheba Hart joins the staff of St George's history teacher Barbara Covett is convinced she has found a kindred spirit Barbara's loyalty to her new friend is passionate and unstinting and when Sheba is discovered having an illicit affair with one of her pupils Barbara quickly elects herself as Sheba's chief defender But all is not as it first seems in this dark story and as Sheba will soon discover a friend can be just as treacherous as any lover'Brilliant nasty gripping' Zadie Smith'Compelling dark sexy' Observer'Superbly gripping One of the most compelling books I've read in ages' Daily Telegraph'Deliciously sinister' Daily MailZoe Heller is the author of three novels Everything You Know Notes on a Scandal which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003 and The Believers The 2006 film adaptation of Notes on a Scandal starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench received four Oscar nominations She lives in New York"
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| "Complicit by Nicci French (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Complicit is a gripping psychological thriller by the highly acclaimed and Top Ten bestselling author Nicci FrenchWho is more deadly?An enemy? A friend?Or a lover?Bonnie Graham is in her friend's flat She is alone except for the dead body lying in a pool of blood What happened? What will she do? And is any or all of it her fault?Bonnie is a music teacher who has spent a long hot summer in London rehearsing with a band It was supposed to be fun but the tricky knots of the band's friendships unravel with each passing day What was meant to be a summer of happiness music and love turns deadly as lovers betray passions turn homicidal and friendship itself becomes a crimeSomeone in the band must be a killer Is it Bonnie? And if not - who is it?Praise for Nicci French'Relentlessly addictive Friendship and betrayal has never been so deadly' Mirror'A gripping crime mystery an accomplished thriller' Woman'Exerts a vice-like grip' Daily Telegraph'Reels in readers from the start' Independent"
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| "On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "In one of the most influential philosophical works ever writer John Stuart Mill explores the risks and responsibilities of liberty Examining the tyranny that can come both from government and from the herd-like opinion of the majority Mill proposes a freedom to think unite and pursue our pleasures as the most important freedoms as long as we cause no harm to others GREAT IDEAS Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other They have inspired debate dissent war and revolution They have enlightened outraged provoked and comforted They have enriched lives - and destroyed them Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are"
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| "The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford..." |
| "It's time to rethink our attitudes to workFor too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking the skills to fix or even understand the most basic technology And yet many of us are not suited to office life while skilled manual work provides one of the few and most rewarding paths to a secure livingDrawing on the work of our greatest thinkers from Aristotle to Heidegger from Karl Marx to Iris Murdoch as well as on his own experiences as an electrician and motorcycle mechanic Matthew Crawford's irreverent and inspiring manifesto will change the way you think about work forever"
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| "The Concept of Mind" |
| "This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge imagination consciousness and the intellect The result is a classic example of philosophy"
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| "Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Flora Thompson&39;s immortal trilogy containing "Lark Rise" "Over To Candleford" and "Candleford Green" is a heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century This story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet the nearby village and a small market town - is based on the author&39;s experiences during childhood and youth It chronicles May Day celebrations and forgotten children&39;s games the daily lives of farmworkers and craftsmen friends and relations - all painted with a gaiety and freshness of observation that make this trilogy an evocative and sensitive memorial to Victorian rural EnglandWith a new introduction by Richard Mabey"
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| "Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Gordon Comstock loathes dull middle-class respectability and worship of money He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop giving him more time to write But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit Only Rosemary ever-faithful Rosemary has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life Through the character of Gordon Comstock Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renouncedEnlivened with vivid autobiographical detail George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a tragically witty account of the struggle to escape from a materialistic existence with an introduction by Peter Davison in Penguin Modern Classics"
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| "A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Intimidated by her father the rector of Knype Hill Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression England Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out in London She is wearing silk stockings has money in her pocket and cannot remember her name Orwell leads us through a landscape of unemployment poverty and hunger where Dorothy's faith is challenged by a social reality that changes her life"
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| "The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Saul Bellow's American masterpiece The Adventures of Augie March includes an introduction by Christopher Hitchens in Penguin Modern ClassicsA penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations including butler thief dog-washer sailor and salesman He is a 'born recruit' easily influenced by others who try to mould his destiny Not until he tangles with the glamorous Thea a huntress with a trained eagle can he attempt to break free A modern day everyman on an odyssey in search of reality and identity Augie March is the star of star performer in a richly observed human variety show a modern-day Columbus in search of reality and fulfilment Saul Bellow (1915-2005) was a Canadian-born American writer who enjoyed a dazzling career as a novelist marked with numerous literary prizes including the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature His books include The Adventures of Augie March Herzog More Die of Heartbreak Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories Mr Sammler's Planet Seize The Day and The VictimIf you enjoyed The Adventures of Augie March you might like John Updike's Rabbit Run also available in Penguin Classics'The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel Search no further'Martin Amis Guardian'Funny poignant crowded with carnivalesque types and yet narrated by a voice that is lonely and simple it is Bellow's fat comic masterpiece'Observer"
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| "The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Ethan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy and enterprising forebears a long line of proud New England sea captains and Pilgrims Scarred by failure Ethan works as a grocery clerk in a store his family once owned But his wife is restless and his teenage children troubled and hungry for the material comforts he cannot provide Then a series of unusual events reignites Ethan's ambition and he is pitched on to a bold course where all scruples are put aside Steinbeck's searing examination of the evil influences of money immorality greed and ambition on America drew acclaim from the Nobel Committee who hailed him as an 'independent expounder of the truth''Returns to the high standards of The Grapes of Wrath and to the social themes that made his early work so powerful'Saul Bellow author of Herzog"
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| "Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics'As though walking through a deep dream I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters They seemed to sprout from the fire-harrowed soil like some iron harvest'A memoir of astonishing power savagery and ashen lyricism Storm of Steel depicts Ernst Junger's experience of combat on the front line - leading raiding parties defending trenches against murderous British incursions and simply enduring as shells tore his comrades apart One of the greatest books to emerge from the catastrophe of the First World War it illuminates like no other book not only the horrors but also the fascination of a war that made men keep fighting for four long yearsErnst Junger (1895-1998) the son of a wealthy chemist ran away from home to join the Foreign Legion His father dragged him back but he returned to military service when he joined the German army on the outbreak of the First World War Storm of Steel (Stahlgewittern) was Junger's first book published in 1920 Greatly admired by the Nazis Junger remained at a distance from the regime with books such as his allegorical work On the Marble Cliffs (1939) functioning as a covert criticism of Nazi ideology and methodsIf you enjoyed Storm of Steel you might like Edward Blunden's Undertones of War also available in Penguin Modern Classics'To read this extraordinary book is to gain a unique insight into the compelling nature of organized industrialized violence'Niall Ferguson author of War of the World'Hofmann's interpretation is superb' The Times'Unique in the literature of this or any other war is its brilliantly vivid conjuration of the immediacy and intensity of battle' Telegraph'Storm of Steel is what so many books claim to be but are not a classic account of war' Evening Standard"
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| "The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Hardback, 2009)" |
| "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 tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco who has a taste for white mice vanilla bonbons and poison Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism"
Price: 12.99 |
| "The Looking Glass War" |
| "A Cold War thriller from the master of spy fiction John le Carre's The Looking Glass War is a gripping novel of double-crosses audacious bluffs and the ever-present threat of nuclear war published in Penguin Modern ClassicsWhen the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumour of a missile base near the West German border it seems like the perfect opportunity to regain some political standing in the Intelligence market place The Cold War is at its height and the Department is dying for a piece of the actionSwiftly becoming carried away by fear and pride the Department and her officers send deactivated agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany armed only with some schoolboy training and his memories of the war In the land of eloquent silence that is Communist East Germany Leiser's fate becomes inseparable from the Department'sIf you enjoyed The Looking Glass War you might like le Carre's The Secret Pilgrim also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A devastating and tragic record of human not glamour spies' New York Herald Tribune'A book of rare and great power' Financial Times"
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| "The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne'Shame Despair Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones - and they had made her strong but taught her much amiss'Fiercely romantic and hugely influential The Scarlet Letter is the tale of Hester Prynne imprisoned publicly shamed and forced to wear a scarlet 'A' for committing adultery and bearing an illegitimate child Pearl In their small Puritan village Hester and her daughter struggle to survive but in this searing study of the tension between private and public existence Hester Prynne's inner strength and quiet dignity means she has frequently been seen as one of the first great heroines of American fictionThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "The bestselling controversial novel about corruption and misuse of power in an American boys' schoolThe headmaster of Trinity College asks Archie Costello the leader of the Vigils a secret society that rules the school to help with the selling of 20000 boxes of chocolates in the annual fund-raising effort Archie sees the chance of adding to his power - he is the Assigner handing out to the boys tasks to be performed if they are to survive in the school Freshman Jerry Renault a newcomer to the corrupt regime refuses to sell chocolates Enormous mental and physical pressure is put on him but he will not give in - the result is an inevitable explosive tragedy"
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| "Pirate School: Just a Bit of Wind by Jeremy Strong (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "It's the first day at PIRATE SCHOOL for Ziggy Smudge Carkella and Flo and they have lots of new things to contend with Their headteacher is the scary Patagonia Clasterbotton and they have to take lessons include walking the plank and hand-to-hand fighting When out on the pirate ship a storm blows up resulting in the children having to rescue Patagonia when she's swept overboard and they learn that really Patagonia is not so scary after all!"
Price: 4.99 |
| "George Speaks by Dick King-Smith (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Laura is amazed when her baby brother George starts talking to her when he's only four weeks old particularly as he sounds like a grown-up! It's a big secret to keep from their parents and the rest of the family and leads to all sorts of comic confusion until George's first birthday - when he makes a speech to his startled family"
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