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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime' Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So ...Show more
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007 Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland 'Excuse me, sir, but m ...Show more
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
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Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
From the acclaimed author of the dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed is an inventive, thought-provoking and darkly absurd novel set in a work rampant with overpopulation. The Wanting Seed is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics. ...Show more
Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog! by Jerome K. Jerome
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a da ...Show more
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of London, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time One of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Deali ...Show more
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tric ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
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 like now... Now they have taken everything away. What a ...Show more