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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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• Author(s): Alexander Solzhenitsyn • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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• Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA story of the troubled life of an introspective historian, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant phi...
View full detailsTo a God Unknown
John Steinbeck
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• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhile fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the fa...
View full detailsThe Long Valley
John Steinbeck
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• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA collection of short stories, set in the idyllic Salinas Valley in California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for th...
View full detailsSweet Thursday
John Steinbeck
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• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just natura...
View full detailsThe Moon is Down
John Steinbeck
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• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOccupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit commu...
View full detailsThe Real James Herriot
Jim Wight
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• Author(s): Jim Wight • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdNo one is better placed to write the biography of Alf Wight, alias James Herriot, than the son who worked alongside him in the veterinary practice during ...
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Bernard Mac Laverty
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• Author(s): Bernard Mac Laverty • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdCal has very few choices in life. He can continue working at the abattoir that sickens him, or join the ranks of the unemployed. He can brood on...
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Vladimir Nabokov
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• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAn autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father,...
View full detailsJourney's End
R. C. Sherriff
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• Author(s): R. C. Sherriff • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHailed by George Bernard Shaw as 'useful corrective] to the romantic conception of war', R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End is an unflinching vision of l...
View full detailsTo the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
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• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA pioneering work of modernist fiction, using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters, Virginia Woo...
View full detailsKeep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell
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• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdGordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a booksho...
View full detailsCalcutta : The City Revealed
Moorhouse Geoffrey
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• Author(s): Moorhouse Geoffrey • Publisher: PRH India Local Print • Publisher Imprint: PenguinThis study of Calcutta, a city of poverty, famine, riot and disease, is the first of its kind since 1918.
Raag Darbari
Shrilal Shukla
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• Author(s): Shrilal Shukla • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General
Ice Candy Man
Bapsi Sidhwa
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• Author(s): Bapsi Sidhwa • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: LiteraryThe story of the upheaval of the 1974 partition of India seen through the eyes of a Parsee girl growing up in Lahore. Through her relations...
View full detailsIntimate Relations
Sudhir Kakar
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• Author(s): Sudhir Kakar • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: PenguinExplores sexuality in India by looking at contemporary films, novels, interviews and Gandhi's sexual "peculiarities". Kakar's observations have been extensiv...
View full detailsA Story-Teller's World: Stories, Essays, Sketches
R.K. Narayan
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• Author(s): R.K. Narayan • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Literary
History of India
Percival Spear
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• Author(s): Percival Spear • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General
Innocent Erendira And Other Stories
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: PenguinErendira accidentally burns down her grandmother's house and is forced to pay her back with the money she earns from prostitution. However, it seem...
View full detailsThe Autumn Of The Patriarch
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: PenguinSet in an unspecified Caribbean country, this is the story of a nation dominated by a dictator who has just died after a very long reign. Its main ...
View full detailsChronicle Of A Death Foretold
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: PenguinSetting out to reconstruct a murder that took place 27 years earlier, this moving chronicle moves backwards and forwards in time, through the contr...
View full detailsThe Binding Vine
Shashi Deshpande
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• Author(s): Shashi Deshpande • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin
Room On The Roof
Ruskin Bond
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• Author(s): Ruskin Bond • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin
The General In His Labyrinth
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: PenguinAt the age of forty-six General Simon Bolivar, who drove the Spanish from his lands and became the Liberator of South America, takes himself into e...
View full detailsOf Love And Other Demons Del Amor Y Otros Demonios
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin
Colours Of Violence
Sudhir Kakar
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• Author(s): Sudhir Kakar • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: EssaysDrawing connections between history, individual development, group psychology and the cultures of specific communities, The Colours of Violen...
View full detailsEcology And Equity
Madhav Gadgil
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• Author(s): Madhav Gadgil • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin
Indias Economic Policy
Bimal Jalan
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• Author(s): Bimal Jalan • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Economics - General
Beach Boy
Ardashir Vakil
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• Author(s): Ardashir Vakil • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: PenguinA coming-of-age story set in Bombay following a boy's passage to adolescence with sex and samosas, sea and shore, truant afternoons, Hindi films, and a wom...
View full detailsThe Insider
P.V. Narasimha Rao
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• Author(s): P.V. Narasimha Rao • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralRevised paperback edition with three new chapters and an epilogue The Insider is a book that emerges from the hidden heart of Indian p...
View full detailsThe Other Side Of Silence
Urvashi Butalia
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• Author(s): Urvashi Butalia • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Modern - 20Th Century - GeneralThe partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions i...
View full detailsGuide to Vaastu
Sashikala Ananth
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• Author(s): Sashikala Ananth • Publisher: PRH India Local Print • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Ebury PressThe Penguin Guide to Vaastu is a meticulously researched book that seeks to place the ancient Indian art of Vaastu in its proper perspective ...
View full detailsCinnamon Gardens
Shyam Selvadurai
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• Author(s): Shyam Selvadurai • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralLush and beautiful, Cinnamon Gardens is a story of intertwined lives in the gracious world of Ceylon in the 1920s In a novel of exceptio...
View full detailsFacing The Mirror
Ashwini Sukhthankar
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• Author(s): Ashwini Sukhthankar • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin
Stallion Of The Sun Other S
U.R. Ananthamurthy
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• Author(s): U.R. Ananthamurthy • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin
The Better Man The
Anita Nair
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• Author(s): Anita Nair • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: PenguinIn Anita Nair's Warm and Imaginative First novel, middle-aged bachelor Mukundan returns to his native Indian village and is haunted by the past. Determined to ...
View full detailsCollected Plays
Mahesh Dattani
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• Author(s): Mahesh Dattani • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Drama
Ancient Promises
Jaishree Misra
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• Author(s): Jaishree Misra • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: PenguinYoung and vulnerable, Janu gave up Arjun, her first love, to enter into an arranged marriage. Years later, she is miserable, having been gradually shut out...
View full detailsFish Cookbook
Megha Patil
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• Author(s): Megha Patil • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Ebury Press • BISAC: Specific Ingredients - SeafoodFish is increasingly being recognised as a delicious and healthy alternative to meat as a source of protei...
View full detailsInterrogating Caste
Dipankar Gupta
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• Author(s): Dipankar Gupta • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Social Classes & Economic DisparityThe caste system has conventionally been perceived by scholars as a hierarchy based on the binary oppositi...
View full detailsHome Remedies Vol. 3
T.V. Sairam
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• Author(s): T.V. Sairam • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Ebury Press • BISAC: Herbal MedicationsA guide to good health for the lay person and the practitioner of traditional medicine, 'Home Remedies' provides an il...
View full detailsBest Of Laxman
R.K. Laxman
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• Author(s): R.K. Laxman • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin
Best Of Laxman
R.K. Laxman
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• Author(s): R.K. Laxman • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin
Collected Writing
R.K. Laxman
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• Author(s): R.K. Laxman • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin
Maximize Your Life
Pavan K Varma
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• Author(s): Pavan K Varma • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin VikingIn this first-of-its-kind book, Pavan K. Varma, author of the best-selling The Great Indian Middle Class, teams up with journalist Renuka Khandekar t...
View full detailsTarry Flynn
Patrick Kavanagh
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• Author(s): Patrick Kavanagh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHe did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only story A semi-autobiographical novel from the author of The Green Foo...
View full detailsSelected Poems
Charles Tomlinson
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• Author(s): Charles Tomlinson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA collection of poems that explore the raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor.
Poetry of the Thirties
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• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAuden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and...
View full detailsGoodbye to All That
Robert Graves
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• Author(s): Robert Graves • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAn autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye ...
View full detailsA Clergyman's Daughter
George Orwell
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• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIntimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts a...
View full detailsLabyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges
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• Author(s): Jorge Luis Borges • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's influential and imaginative writers. It was a literary spellbinder whos...
View full detailsSilent Spring
Rachel Carson
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• Author(s): Rachel Carson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdExposes the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. This book aims to creates public awareness of the environment.
The Penguin Dictionary of English Grammar
R L Trask
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• Author(s): R L Trask • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson
Eugene Ionesco
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• Author(s): Eugene Ionesco • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThese three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and far...
View full detailsManhattan Transfer
John Dos Passos
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• Author(s): John Dos Passos • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdUsing experimental montage techniques borrowed from the cinema, descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation, and jumbled case histories of a p...
View full detailsHuis Clos and Other Plays
Jean-Paul Sartre
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• Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA collection of plays including Lucifer and the Lord, Huis Clos, and The Respectable Prostitute.
Our Town and Other Plays
Thornton Wilder
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• Author(s): Thornton Wilder • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFinding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple...
View full detailsOne Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThough little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm ...
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