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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy.Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole's masterful comic novel takes its title, as well asfrom Jonathan Swift ...Show more
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of st ...Show more
A Month In The Country: Penguin Essentials by J.L. Carr
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of ren ...Show more
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'A phalanx of motorcycles came roaring over the hill from the west... the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing. It was like Genghis Khan, Morgan's Raiders, the Wild One and the Rape of Nanking all at once.'In Sep ...Show more
Life Class by Pat Barker
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart 'Triumphant, inspiring, shattering' The Time ...Show more
The Snow Goose & The Small Miracle by Paul Gallico
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Did you run across that queer sort of legend about a wild goose? It was all up and down the beaches. You know how those things spring up. Some of the men I brought back were talking about it. It was supposed to have appeared at intervals the last days between Dunkirk and La Panne. If you saw it, you we ...Show more
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