Cannery Row (Popular Penguins) by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood's bordello venture out ...Show more
Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition by Joseph Heller
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Category: Classics
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, this memoir is about the authors childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. It also depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distan ...Show more
Diary of a Bad Year: Text Classics by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
"She pouts. I was expecting more of a story, she says. It is difficult to get into the swing when the subject keeps changing." An ageing writer fills his journal: he has opinions about everything. He is challenged by Anya, the smart, irreverent young woman he hires to type his notes. Anya's boyfriend sc ...Show more
Drylands: Text Classics by Thea Astley
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In the dying town of Drylands, Janet Deakin sells papers to lonely locals. At night, in her flat above the newsagency, she attempts to write a novel for a world in which no one reads--'full of people, she envisaged, glaring at a screen that glared glassily back'. Drylands is the story of the townsfolk's ...Show more
Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard
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Category: Classics | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classi
The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China.Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.Shanghai, 1941--a city aflame ...Show more
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Category: Classics | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His jo ...Show more
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fan sin ...Show more
Fly Away Peter by David Malouf
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Category: Classics
"For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. I ...Show more
Great Gatsby (Collins Classic) by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYER.The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy du ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos ...Show more
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Classics | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare Ser.
** Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction **Selected as a Book of the Year -- Observer, Sunday Times, Times, Guardian, i magazine 'It's got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. Definitely revenge.' Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His ...Show more