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By: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780141184883
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Follows 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 climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
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By: Federico Garca Lorca
ISBN: 9780241340400
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Anne Frank
ISBN: 9780241387481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Anne Frank
ISBN: 9780241952436
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Aged thirteen when Anne Frank went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death, petty misunderstandings and the unbearable strain of living like prisoners.
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By: Samuel Pepys
ISBN: 9780141439938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague, the Fire of London. This book offers an eyewitness account along with lively descriptions of the author's socializing, his amorous entanglements, his theater-going & music-making.
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By: John Preston
ISBN: 9780241989630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Originally published: United Kingdom: Viking, 2007.
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By: Italo Calvino
ISBN: 9780241339107
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: R. D. Laing
ISBN: 9780141189376
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Using case studies of patients the author had worked with, this title argues that psychosis is not a medical condition but an outcome of the 'divided self', or the tension between the two personas within us: one our authentic, private identity, and the other the false, 'sane' self that we present to the world.
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By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9780140441055
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1963
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Having climbed the Mount of Purgatory, Dante ascends to Heaven, continuing his soul's search for God guided by his beloved, Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise he grows in understanding, until he finally experiences divine love in God's presence.
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By: Robin Kirkpatrick
ISBN: 9780141197494
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 29th November 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Suitable for students as well as the general reader who is coming to the great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first time, this title examines the questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9780140440461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1964
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, 'Purgatory' relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into the depths of the earth.
By: Archimede Fusillo
ISBN: 9780141313344
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Oct 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Paul is trying to escape. He's trying to escape from an Italian heritage that just doesn't seem to have relevance for him any more, and he's trying to escape from his nonno.
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By: Masanobu Fukuoka
ISBN: 9780241514443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Anthony Gottlieb
ISBN: 9780141000664
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 8th August 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Anthony Gottlieb
ISBN: 9780141983844
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Karen Blixen
ISBN: 9780241746950
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 17th April 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: C. J. Tudor
ISBN: 9781405948272
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Mark Douglas-Home
ISBN: 9781405923637
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th January 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: mile Zola
ISBN: 9780140449549
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest living. When she accepts marriage proposal of Monsieur Coupeau, it seems as though she is on path to a decent, respectable life at last.
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By: Muriel Spark
ISBN: 9780241752036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 17th April 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
Muriel Spark claimed The Drivers Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her heroine Lise heading for the holiday of a lifetime in an extraordinarily garish dress and with violence on her mind you will understand why.
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By: Muriel Spark
ISBN: 9780141188348
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional experience takes on a far darker significance.
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By: Helen Callaghan
ISBN: 9781405936156
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 17th August 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Ross Macdonald
ISBN: 9780241639191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th July 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Truman Capote
ISBN: 9780241339145
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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