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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
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• Author(s): Jonathan Swift • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches ...
View full detailsThe Warden
Anthony Trollope
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• Author(s): Anthony Trollope • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Warden by Anthony Trollope 'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be distu...
View full detailsThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around i...
View full detailsThe House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
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• Author(s): Edith Wharton • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her ...
View full detailsThe War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
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• Author(s): H. G. Wells • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 'Death ' I shouted. 'Death is coming Death ' In this pioneering, shocking a...
View full detailsDracula
Bram Stoker
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• Author(s): Bram Stoker • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker 'Alone with the dead I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf throu...
View full detailsA Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easies...
View full detailsMoney and Power
William D. Cohan
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• Author(s): William D. Cohan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBill Cohan, chronicler of 'Wall Street', turns his sights on Goldman Sachs, one of the most iconic and successful banks in the world. He has had ac...
View full detailsLife Long Ago
Sunanda Sikdar
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• Author(s): Sunanda Sikdar • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin-Zubaan • BISAC: Personal MemoirsBarely twelve years old, Dayamoyee watches with bewilderment as hervillage, Dighpait, begins to change and people she know...
View full detailsThe Roots Of Vedanta
Sudhakshina Rangaswami
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• Author(s): Sudhakshina Rangaswami • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Black Classics • BISAC: GeneralThis erudite and wide-ranging anthology offers a panoramic view of Ved?nta in Sankara's own words, with selections ...
View full detailsBecoming Indian
Pavan K Varma
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• Author(s): Pavan K Varma • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: EssaysWhat are the consequences of Empire? Do they ever fade? In this followupto his bestselling book Being Indian, Pavan K. Varma takes a longhar...
View full detailsSuperpower
Raghav Bahl
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• Author(s): Raghav Bahl • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Portfolio • BISAC: International - EconomicsIs India ready for superpower status? Or are we irretrievably behind in thegame of catch-up with China?The dragon...
View full detailsThe Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker
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• Author(s): Steven Pinker • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSteven Pinker argues that modernity and its cultural institutions are actually making us better people. He suggests that, contrary to popular belief, ...
View full detailsWhat is Madness?
Darian Leader
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• Author(s): Darian Leader • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThrough cases like that of Harold Shipman, Darian Leader explores the idea of discreet madness and argues that it is only through revising our concept...
View full detailsVanished Kingdoms
Norman Davies
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• Author(s): Norman Davies • Publisher: MixBR • Publisher Imprint: MixBR • Subject: HistoryFrom Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sun...
View full detailsHome Cooking
Laurie Colwin
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• Author(s): Laurie Colwin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWeaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, 'Home Cooking' is Laurie Colwin's manifesto on the joys of sharing f...
View full detailsA History of Venice
John Julius Norwich
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• Author(s): John Julius Norwich • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRenowned historian, and author of A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich's classic history of Venice A History of Venice tells the st...
View full detailsWatership Down
Richard Adams
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• Author(s): Richard Adams • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd40th anniversary edition of Richard Adams' picaresque saga about a motley band of rabbits - Watership Down is one of the most beloved novels of our ti...
View full detailsThe Quest
Daniel Yergin
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• Author(s): Daniel Yergin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis volume reveals the on-going quest to meet the world's energy needs, and the power and riches that come with it. Yergin proves that energy is trul...
View full detailsManik And I
Bijoya Ray
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• Author(s): Bijoya Ray • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralSatyajit Ray-'Manik'-and Bijoya got married years beforePather Panchali was made. Manik and I brims over with hithertounknown stories of Bijoy...
View full detailsWhen China Rules The World
Martin Jacques
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• Author(s): Martin Jacques • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdChina will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chine...
View full detailsMalcolm X
Manning Marable
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• Author(s): Manning Marable • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdConstantly rewriting his own story, Malcolm X became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and eventually an icon, assassinated at the age of 39. This w...
View full detailsOur Last Best Chance
King Abdullah II of Jordan
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• Author(s): King Abdullah II of Jordan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA dying King Hussein of Jordan shocked the world when he chose his son rather than his brother to be the next King of Jordan. In this can...
View full detailsThe Wide Lens
Ron Adner
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• Author(s): Ron Adner • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDraws on over a decade of research and field testing to take you on far ranging journeys from Kenya to California, from transport to telecommunications, t...
View full detailsPoor Economics
Abhijit V. Banerjee
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• Author(s): Abhijit V. Banerjee • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhy would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Does having lots of children actually make you poorer? This book ove...
View full detailsThe Gallows Curse
Karen Maitland
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• Author(s): Karen Maitland • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the peo...
View full detailsThe Nowhere Man
Kamala Markandaya
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• Author(s): Kamala Markandaya • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General"Srinivas, an elderly Brahmin, has been living in a south London suburb for thirty years. After the death of his son, and later of his ...
View full detailsThe Crimson Throne
Sudhir Kakar
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• Author(s): Sudhir Kakar • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralRiveting, eloquent and richly imagined, The Crimson Throne is set inthe tumultuous period marking the end of Shah Jahan’s reign. NiccolaoMan...
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Patrick French
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• Author(s): Patrick French • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaPatrick French brings one of the globe’s most dynamic nations springingto life … he has an encyclopaedic knowledge o...
View full detailsThe Food of Spain
Claudia Roden
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• Author(s): Claudia Roden • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdClaudia Roden has spent five years researching and writing about the food of Spain, resulting in this definitive, passionate and evocative cookbook wh...
View full detailsThe Little Paris Kitchen
Rachel Khoo
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• Author(s): Rachel Khoo • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom a croque madame muffin to fragrant provencal lavender and lemon roast chicken, Rachel Khoo celebrates the culinary landscape of France. The 120 rec...
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Julian Green
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• Author(s): Julian Green • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJulian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an extraordinary, lyrical love l...
View full detailsThe Magician of Lublin
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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• Author(s): Isaac Bashevis Singer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdYasha could perform tricks, shell peas with his toes, dance on the tightrope and turn somersaults on the high wire. He owned a fine house and ...
View full detailsEnemies: A Love Story
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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• Author(s): Isaac Bashevis Singer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHerman Broder, a refugee and Holocaust survivor, has three women in his life: Yadwiga, the loyal Polish peasant who hid him in a hayloft from ...
View full detailsThe Slave
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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• Author(s): Isaac Bashevis Singer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFleeing from the Chmielnick's massacre, Jacob had been captured and sold to a peasant farmer. Now he lives as a slave and an outcast pulling c...
View full detailsShosha
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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• Author(s): Isaac Bashevis Singer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWarsaw, 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his art when he is faced with the chanc...
View full detailsDoctor Sax
Jack Kerouac
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• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTold through the character of Kerouac's fictional alter ego, Jack Duluoz, the novel tells the story of his childhood in Massachusetts. A clever and reb...
View full detailsBig Sur
Jack Kerouac
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• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Big Sur' is a moving account of a man coming to terms with his own myth, his own talent and his uncontrollable, unrelenting, self-destructive life. No...
View full detailsDesolation Angels
Jack Kerouac
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• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom California to Mexico and on to opium-ridden Tangiers, Kerouac chronicles the frenetic parties, the drink and the drugs, the poetry and the mountai...
View full detailsHow the World Works
Noam Chomsky
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• Author(s): Noam Chomsky • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWith exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four ...
View full detailsBadfellas
Paul Williams
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• Author(s): Paul Williams • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis is an account of the growth of Irish organized crime. Williams provides a revealing insight into how Ireland's crime scene changed so rapidly, de...
View full detailsHow It All Began
Penelope Lively
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• Author(s): Penelope Lively • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer, Lord Peters, to Manchester, which means his niece, Mar...
View full detailsOccupy
Noam Chomsky
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• Author(s): Noam Chomsky • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSince its appearance in Zuccotti Park, New York, in September 2011, the Occupy movement has spread to hundreds of towns and cities across the world. Th...
View full detailsEarthsea
Ursula Le Guin
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• Author(s): Ursula Le Guin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdGed is but a goatherd on the island of Gont when he comes by his strange powers over nature. Sent to the School of Wizards on Roke, he learns the tru...
View full detailsThe Secret Friend
Chris Mooney
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• Author(s): Chris Mooney • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen Judith Chen is found floating in Boston's Harbour, links are made with the murder of Emma Hale, a student who vanished without trace, only for her...
View full detailsThe Puffin Book Of Animal Stories
Various
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• Author(s): Various • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Puffin • BISAC: Animals - GeneralA collection of heartwarming animal stories featuring a butterfly playing with shadows, a cake-loving cow, and a flying elephant. Meet c...
View full detailsChanel
Lisa Chaney
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• Author(s): Lisa Chaney • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBy the end of the First World War, Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel had revolutionised women's dress. But dress was the most visible aspect of more profound chan...
View full detailsA Heart so White
Javier Marias
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• Author(s): Javier Marias • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIf Ranz has told no lies to his son Juan, that is because Juan has asked no questions. But when Juan marries, and his wife and father have things to t...
View full detailsTomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Javier Marias
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• Author(s): Javier Marias • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdVictor has left his new mistress, Marta, dead on her bed. An unexpected end to what was supposed to be an evening of passion - but the girl had sudden...
View full detailsAll Souls
Javier Marias
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• Author(s): Javier Marias • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAt the centre of this brilliantly wrought tapestry of Oxford life unfolds a passionate, often imprudent affair between a young Spanish academic and a ...
View full detailsEdmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr
Evelyn Waugh
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• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tybur...
View full detailsThe Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox
Evelyn Waugh
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• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom Evelyn Waugh, the author of beloved novels such as Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies, this is the biography of Ronald Knox -...
View full detailsBastard Out of Carolina
Dorothy Allison
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• Author(s): Dorothy Allison • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRuth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, South Carolina home, her notorious, hard-living f...
View full detailsKing of the Fields
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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• Author(s): Isaac Bashevis Singer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, comes a fictional exploration of primitive history. Singer's novel p...
View full detailsLove and Exile
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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• Author(s): Isaac Bashevis Singer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer traces the early years of his life in t...
View full detailsAngels
Marian Keyes
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• Author(s): Marian Keyes • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMaggie Walsh is supposed to be the sensible one - the white sheep of the family. She lives less than a mile from Mum and Dad and married middle-of-the-...
View full detailsRachel's Holiday
Marian Keyes
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• Author(s): Marian Keyes • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDeliciously dark and fantastically funny, Rachel's Holiday is the story of a young woman living life rather too well until the day she takes it too far...
View full detailsThe Other Side of the Story
Marian Keyes
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• Author(s): Marian Keyes • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe lives of three women collide when a highflying literary agent finds herself representing two women who were once best friends . . . 'There are t...
View full detailsLast Chance Saloon
Marian Keyes
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• Author(s): Marian Keyes • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn Marian Keyes' BESTSELLING Last Chance Saloon, three great friends discover that despite their best-laid plans, life can unravel in the most unexpect...
View full detailsAnybody Out There
Marian Keyes
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• Author(s): Marian Keyes • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAnna Walsh needs her old life back: her home, her glamorous career and above all the love of her life, her husband Aidan. But what has driven her so fa...
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