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April Fool's Day: Popular Penguins by Bryce Courtenay
$12.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In the end, love is more important than everything and it will conquer and overcome anything. Or that's how Damon saw it, anyway. Damon wanted a book that talked a lot about love. Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering ...Show more
Beowulf: Popular Penguins by Michael Alexander
$12.99 AUD
Category: Adult Classic | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"Alexander's translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful and] ...communicates the poem with a care which goes beyond fidelity-to-meaning and reaches fidelity of implication. May it go on ... to another half-million copies." - Tom Shippey, Bulletin of the I ...Show more
For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
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Category: Tasmanian | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
For the Term of his Natural Life by Marcus Clarke. For the Term of His Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Life), appearing as a novel in 1874. It is the best known novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian his ...Show more
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Popular Penguins by Ken Kesey
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Category: Adult Classic | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-lovi ...Show more
Picnic At Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
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Category: Adult Classic | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES - STARRING NATALIE DORMER It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pr ...Show more
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Adult Classic | Series: Green Popular Penguins Ser.
Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature's greatest detective team - the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson - as they investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. Originally published in 1892, this is the first and best collection of stories about the le ...Show more
The Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins by Robert Drewe
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Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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 Chrysalids (Popular Penguins) by John Wyndham
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Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God's creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much ...Show more
The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
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Category: General Knowledge | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. Fro ...Show more
The Day of the Triffids: Popular Penguins by John Wyndham
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Category: Adult Classic | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave ...Show more
The Pit and the Pendulum: Popular Penguins by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Adult Classic | Series: Popular Penguins
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 War of the Worlds: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: Adult Classic | Series: Popular Penguins
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