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Animal Farm
The dystopian classic reimagined with cover art by Shepard Fairey
Häftad, 2008
4,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (36)
139 kr
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The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover Orwell's classic dystopian masterpiece beautifully reimagined by renowned street artist Shepard Fairey'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day …
1984
The dystopian classic reimagined with cover art by Shepard Fairey
Häftad, 2008
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (33)
139 kr
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The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover the classic dystopian masterpiece beautifully reimagined by renowned street artist Shepard FaireyWinston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the …
Confederacy of Dunces
‘Probably my favourite book of all time’ Billy Connolly
Häftad, 2011
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (5)
149 kr
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ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD 'This is probably my favourite book of all time' Billy Connolly A pithy, laugh-out-loud story following John Kennedy Toole's larger-than-life Ignatius J. Reilly, floundering his way through 1960s New Orleans, beautifully resigned with cover art by …
Cat's Cradle
Häftad, 2011
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (6)
136 kr
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Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is an irreverent and highly entertaining fantasy about the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.'Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the …
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2012
139 kr
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women SelectionMuriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials edition.'Give me a girl at an …
Any Human Heart
A BBC Two Between the Covers pick
Av William Boyd
Häftad, 2017
139 kr
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Any Human Heart is William's Boyd's classic, bestselling novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. …
Austerlitz
Av W. G. Sebald
Häftad, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
141 kr
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Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe.In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. …
In Cold Blood
A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
Häftad, 2012
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
115 kr
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Considered by many to be the first work of the true crime genre, this ground-breaking book reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family from information provided by newspaper articles and interviews. 'Dick became convinced that Perry was that rarity, "a natural killer" - absolutely sane, but …
Hell's Angels
Häftad, 2011
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
141 kr
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Journalist, maverick, rebel and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson offers another novel of American counterculture in Hell's Angels, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'A phalanx of motorcycles came roaring over the hill from the west... the …
Down and Out in Paris and London
The classic reimagined with cover art by Shepard Fairey
Häftad, 2013
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
109 kr
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The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover Orwell's personal account of life on the streets beautifully reimagined by renowned street artist Shepard FaireyTo be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless …
Wide Sargasso Sea
Av Jean Rhys
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am …
Forty Rules of Love
Av Elif Shafak
Häftad, 2023
139 kr
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The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics*One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped the …
Bonjour Tristesse
Häftad, 2011
139 kr
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A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection'Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary. . . This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is …
Lolita
Häftad, 2011
139 kr
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'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.'Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old …
Invisible Man
Häftad, 2014
139 kr
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New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man.'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.'Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' …
Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Häftad, 2016
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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The classic Cold War thriller, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at …
Dubliners
Av James Joyce
Häftad, 2012
133 kr
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'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.'From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young …
On Beauty
Av Zadie Smith
Häftad, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
129 kr
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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEFrom the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply moving story about love and familyWhy do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on …
Junky
Häftad, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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'Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life'William Burroughs, legendary drug addict, founder member of the Beats and author of Naked Lunch, relates with unflinching realism the addict's life: from initial heroin bliss to an …
Embers
Av Sandor Marai
Häftad, 2016
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'Wonderful. Immensely moving' Daily TelegraphAs darkness settles on a forgotten castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, two men sit down to a final meal together. They have not seen one another in …
Man in the High Castle
Häftad, 2014
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
139 kr
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NOW AN AMAZON ORIGINAL SERIES'Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.'America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two …
Girls Of Slender Means
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2020
139 kr
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'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.'The May of Teck Club 'exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years'. Nevertheless, and though there is a war …
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Häftad, 2011
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (9)
139 kr
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A beautifully designed edition of Truman Capote's dazzling New York novel Breakfast at Tiffany's, which inspired the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn 'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud …
Out of Africa
Av Karen Blixen
Häftad, 2011
139 kr
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Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is the lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya that launched a million tourist trails, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in …
Lucky Jim
Häftad, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.'Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is …
Bastard of Istanbul
Av Elif Shafak
Häftad, 2019
139 kr
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One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life.Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a …
Eva Luna
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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'My name is Eva, which means "life", according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of …
Foe
Av J M Coetzee
Häftad, 2015
139 kr
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Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee reimagines Daniel DeFoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe in Foe. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. In an act of breathtaking imagination, J.M Coetzee radically …
Plague
Av Albert Camus
Häftad, 2020
149 kr
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The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some …
Periodic Table
Av Primo Levi
Häftad, 2012
136 kr
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'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone'Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to the …
