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By: Sandra Newman
ISBN: 9780141044521
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Why does most writing about the classics have words like 'seminal' or 'oeuvre' in it What does postmodernism mean Can I get away with just reading the introduction This title guides you through the Western literary canon, century by century: from Ancient Greek drama to the modern novel, via Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Proust.
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By: Orlando Figes
ISBN: 9780141013510
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores the inner life of a Russia where everyone was afraid to talk and society spoke in whispers, whether to protect friends and family - or to betray them. In this title, the author tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin's Terror.
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By: Paul Hoffman
ISBN: 9780718185572
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 18th August 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Anna Hope
ISBN: 9780241995495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 18th May 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Ali Smith
ISBN: 9780140296808
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
UK Publication Date: 24th June 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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How do you ever know the whole story How do you ever know even part of the story How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, just be chance and coincidence Presenting connections and missed connections, this collection of stories is an inquiry into things ranging from flies and trees and books to sex, art, drunkenness, and love.
(Hardback)
By: Travis Kennedy
ISBN: 9780241738436
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 26th June 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Ron Adner
ISBN: 9780670921683
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Draws on over a decade of research and field testing to take you on far ranging journeys from Kenya to California, from transport to telecommunications, to reveal the hidden structure of success in a world of interdependence. This title offers a new set of frameworks and tools that can multiply your odds of innovation success.
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By: Hampton Sides
ISBN: 9780241437339
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 11th April 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Updike
ISBN: 9780141038032
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When the three witches - now old, remarried and widowed - decide to go back to Eastwick to spend a summer together, many things have changed. Darryl Van Horne is gone. Their husbands and lovers have gone. The lithe and supple bodies with which they wrecked marriages and wreaked havoc many years before have gone.
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By: Libby Ashworth
ISBN: 9781405962063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: William S. Burroughs
ISBN: 9780141189833
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A novel that sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as well as pranksterish guerrilla warfare and open combat with a confused and outmatched army.
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By: Kenneth Grahame
ISBN: 9780143106647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A story of animal cunning and human camaraderie. It features cover art by painter and illustrator Rachell Sumpter, who brings a whimsical sensibility to the Threads.
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By: Julie Johnson
ISBN: 9780241694732
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Beryl Matthews
ISBN: 9781405940597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Updike
ISBN: 9780141188973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, luring them to his mansions...
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By: L. Frank Baum
ISBN: 9780143106630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Dorothy, together with her companions the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow and the cowardly Lion, makes her journey along the Yellow Brick Road in search of the wonderful wizard. This book features cover art that brings a whimsical sensibility to the Threads.
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By: L. Frank Baum
ISBN: 9780143138686
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"This fully annotated volume collects three of Baum's fourteen Oz novels."--
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By: Alex Grecian
ISBN: 9781405922401
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Wilkie Collins
ISBN: 9780141389431
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 29th November 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Hartright's Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison.
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By: Sue Townsend
ISBN: 9780141399645
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 13th September 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The day her twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she's wanted to yell at the world, 'Stop! I want to get off'. Finally, this is her chance. Her husband Brian, an astronomer having an affair, is upset. Who will cook his dinner Eva, he complains, is attention seeking. But word of Eva's defiance spreads.
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By: Khadija Mastur
ISBN: 9780143138068
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Selma Lagerlf
ISBN: 9780241206096
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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First published in Swedish as "Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom sverige" in 1906-7. This translation first published in 2016.
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By: Walter Benjamin
ISBN: 9780141036199
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.
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By: Ad Putter
ISBN: 9780140424140
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 26th June 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Suitable for students and scholars, this book brings together four works of the unknown fourteenth-century poet famous for the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in their original Middle English.
