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• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFollows two young men engaged in a passionate search for dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbin...

• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdContains poems which reveal both the endless diversity of human life and poets particular philosophy of self-fulfillment.

• Author(s): Jean Rhys • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHer grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is edited wi...

• Author(s): John Wyndham • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA powerful post-apocalyptic allegory of persecution and intolerance, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Wyndham's science fiction masterpiece ...

• Author(s): Malcolm Lowry • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIt is the fiesta 'Day of the Dead' in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins to buy skulls mad...

• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJames Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life...

• Author(s): Truman Capote • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionReconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. In this title, the author's study of the killin...

• Author(s): Samuel Beckett • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIncludes the novellas First Love, The Calamative, The End and The Expelled.

• Author(s): Italo Calvino • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThere was no Italian equivalent to the Brothers Grimm until Italo Calvino collected these folktales from his homeland which transport the reader into ...

• Author(s): Muriel Spark • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMuriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie includes an introduction by Candia McWilliam in Penguin Modern Classics. Romantic, heroic, comic and tragi...

• Author(s): Anthony Burgess • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages...

• Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdNow the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge ), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, The...

• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPlayful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual deve...

• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West...

• Author(s): Flann O'Brien • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFlann O'Brien's innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author, At Swim-...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over ...

• Author(s): Saki • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSaki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's "Golden Afternoon" the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although, like so many of ...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Willans • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSchool is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of fifties English li...

• Author(s): Anne Fadiman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. Writing with humour and erudition, Fadiman revives the traditi...

• Author(s): John Allen Paulos • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

• Author(s): Sudhir Dar • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin

• Author(s): Peter Mayle • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOffers an account of an Englishman's life abroad. This book describes among other curiosities, a school for noses in Haute Provence, the mysterious deat...

• Author(s): Christina Lamb • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdChristina Lamb's The Africa House is the bestselling account of an English gentleman and his African dream. In the last decades of the British Empire...

• Author(s): Jane Green • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJane Green, author of the best-sellers Second Chance and Straight Talking, examines friendships and their limits in her highly entertaining novel Bookend...

• Author(s): Peter Mayle • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPeter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only image doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to ...

• Author(s): George Grossmith • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdChannelling a razor-sharp satire through the everyday mishaps of the immortal comic character Mr Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of...

• Author(s): Professor Steven Rose • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

• Author(s): Mark Mazower • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis is an ambitious history of 20th-century Europe. It expands the frontiers of Europe outwards to include not only Portugal and Ireland but also, and...

• Author(s): Paul Krugman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEconomics, as Keynes wrote, is dangerous for good or evil. Paul Krugman, one of the world's best economists, has made a second career railing against p...

• Author(s): Suzanne Berne • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd10-year-old Marsha is in turmoil following the collapse of her parents' marriage, and the brutal murder of a local boy. When the shy bachelor from nex...

• Author(s): John Kenneth Galbraith • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhy worship work and productivity if many of the goods we produce are superfluous - artificial 'needs' created by high-pressure advertising? ...

• Author(s): Steve Hagen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis work provides a clear, straightforward treatise on Buddhism in general and awareness in particular - the book is all about being awake and in touch...

• Author(s): E J Hobsbawm • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDescribes Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special relat...

• Author(s): Ben Elton • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe complete Blackadder scripts by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Rowan Atkinson and John Lloyd. Twenty-six years ago, Edmund Blackadder made his first appear...

• Author(s): Stuart Slatter • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen firms are on the brink of failure, only turnaround management can restore performance and profitability. The key is to provide profitability and...

• Author(s): Dorothy Dunnett • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBefore George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett . . . PERFECT for fans of A Game of Thrones. 'She is a brilliant story teller, The Lymond...

• Author(s): Dorothy Dunnett • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBefore George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett . . . PERFECT for fans of A Game of Thrones. 'She is a brilliant story teller, The Lymo...

• Author(s): Simon Winchester • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W ...

• Author(s): Dorothy Dunnett • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBefore George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett . . . PERFECT for fans of A Game of Thrones. 'She is a brilliant story teller, The Lymond Chron...

• Author(s): Dorothy Dunnett • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBefore George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett . . . PERFECT for fans of A Game of Thrones. 'She is a brilliant story teller, The Lymond Chron...

• Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdNew Penguin Essentials edition of the heartbreaking classic of the roaring twenties, Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'I don't ask y...

• Author(s): Andre Breton • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWeaves a tapestry of daily life as seen through a magical perspective. This book combines Breton's autobiographical fact with memory and imagination, a...

• Author(s): Various • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOffers an introduction to the First World War Poetry. This title features the sequence of poems that is drawn from a number of sources, mixing both well-kno...

• Author(s): Peter Demetz • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom the Velvet Revolution to the disturbing world of Franz Kafka, from the devastation of the Thirty Years War to the musical elegance of Mozart and D...

• Author(s): Norman Stone • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA groundbreaking historical study, Norman Stone's The Eastern Front 1914-1917 was the very first authoritative account of the Russian Front in World Wa...

• Author(s): Marion Zimmer Bradley • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSpans the creation of Avalon itself, right up to the birth of King Arthur. This novel presented through the successive lives of its three powe...

• Author(s): Elizabeth David • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn Italian Food, Elizabeth David was the first to help us understand the real country cooking of Italy. Italian Food was an inspiration to British c...

• Author(s): Jane Green • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdNumber one best-seller Jane Green - author of Babyville and Straight Talking - explores reinvention and self-discovery in Jemima J. Jemima Jones is overw...

• Author(s): Elizabeth David • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrench Provincial Cooking is Elizabeth David's classic work on French regional cuisine. Providing simple recipes like omelettes, souffles, soups and...

• Author(s): David Deutsch • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAn extraordinary and challenging synthesis of ideas uniting Quantum Theory, and the theories of Computation, Knowledge and Evolution, Deutsch's extrao...

• Author(s): Matt Ridley • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhy are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altruism? This book explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social ex...

• Author(s): R L Trask • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

• Author(s): Mira Kirshenbaum • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMost relationships go through difficult times, and this text is aimed at those who are trying to make a decision about where their relationship is ...

• Author(s): Foundation for Inner Peace • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis is a self-study course which aims to change perceptions, heal minds and change behaviour. The work introduces miracles as naturally ...

• Author(s): Janet Evanovich • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSet in New Jersey, this is the story of Stephanie Plum, a failed lingerie buyer and newly turned bond agent, first encountered in 'One For the Money...

• Author(s): Misha Glenny • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this fully revised and updated discussion of the five year conflict in the former Yugoslavia, Misha Glenny looks ahead to to the uncertain future of...

• Author(s): Daniel C. Dennett • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdArgues that the theory of evolution can demystify the miracles of life without devaluing our most cherished beliefs. In this book, the author expl...

• Author(s): Paul Celan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPresents poetry drawn from the author's experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of his parents in the death camps.

• Author(s): Paul Davies • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPaul Davies here confronts the tough questions about time, including the weird relationship between physical time and our psychological perception of it...

• Author(s): Anthony Trollope • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPlantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without...