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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and ...Show more
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene by Adonis
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Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Written in the early 1960s by Adonis, 'the most eloquent spokesman and explorer of Arabic modernity' (Edward Said), Songs of Mihyar the Damascene is widely considered to be the apex of the modernist poetry movement in the Arab world, and a radical departure from the rigid formal structures that had domi ...Show more
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that's just naturally bad.
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
But, for all her screen, she felt a pair of eyes were fixed upon her with a glow of admiration deepening their honest brightness. Somehow, look in what direction she would, she caught the glance of those eyes before she could see anything else. So she played with her apron-strings, and tried not to feel ...Show more
Tarzan Of The Apes: Pocket Penguin Classics by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Category: Classic | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Abandoned to his fate when his English parents die in the African jungle, a baby boy is rescued and reared by a loving ape foster mother. Conquering the savage laws of the wilderness, Tarzan grows into a mighty warrior and becomes leader of his tribe of apes until he encounters, for the first time, his ...Show more
The Amazing Spider-Man - Penguin Classics Marvel Collection by Stan Lee, Steve Ditko
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Category: Graphic (adult) | Series: Penguin Classics Marvel Collection
The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition Collects "Spider-Man!" from Amazing Fantasy #15 ( ...Show more
The Avengers Penguin Classics by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee
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Category: Graphic (adult) | Series: Penguin Classics Marvel Collection
The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. Collects The Avengers #1-4, 9, 16, 26, 28, 44, 57, 58, 71, 74, and 83. It is impossible to ima ...Show more
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
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Category: Home | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Rumpole by Sir John Mortimer
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Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk o ...Show more
The Complete Fables by AESOP
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Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'Many people are not in the least disturbed at the harm that befalls them, provided they can see their enemies' downfall first' In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop created a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. Here we see a wily fox outwitted by a quic ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Classics
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three m ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more