Browse by category
Persuasion: Popular Penguins by Jane Austen
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Eight years ago, Anne rejected the man she loved because her friends and family persuaded her that he wasn't rich or important enough. In all that time, she's never found anyone to match Captain Wentworth. With her snobbish father and spoiled sister always ready to embarrass her in polite society, Anne ...Show more
Picnic At Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins
NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES - STARRING NATALIE DORMER It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pr ...Show more
Playing Beatie Bow: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The game is called Beatie Bow, and the kids play it for the thrill of giving themselves a scare. It's Beatie Bow, risen from the dead When Abigail is drawn in, the game quickly changes from a harmless little scare to an extraordinary adventure, as she is transported to a place that is strangely familiar ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Pride and PrejudiceBy Jane AustenElizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: ...Show more
Pygmalion: Popular Penguins by Bernard Shaw
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
A barbed attack on the British class system, Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his ...Show more
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Rabbit, Run is a 1960 novel by John Updike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life.
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young - published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'I just don't think our war aims -whatever they may be- and we don't know - justify this level of slaughter.'The poets and soldiers Siegfri ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe: Popular Penguins by Daniel Defoe
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Daniel Defoe's great masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my h ...Show more
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders: Popular Penguins by John Mortimer
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins
John Mortimer's Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murderssees our eponymous hero tackle his first ever case. It is just after the war and two RAF heroes are found shot dead. Simon Jerold, the son of one of the victims, is the only suspect and young Rumpole is given the hopeless task of defending him. But R ...Show more
Seven Little Australians: Popular Penguins by Ethel Turner
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Judy's father, Captain Woolcot, found his vivacious, cheeky daughter impossible - but seven children were really too much for him and most of the time they ran wild at their rambling riverside home, Misrule. Step inside and meet them all - dreamy Meg, and Pip, daring Judy, naughty Bunty, Nell, Baby and ...Show more
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Popular Penguins) by William Shakespeare
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
William Shakespeare's sonnets are a beautiful expression of a range of human emotions - from love to grief, anger, jealousy and lust. Including the instantly recognisable 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' as well as a range of other equally moving works, this compilation brings together the compl ...Show more
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Used successfully by thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world, Six Thinking Hats offers a practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas.Your success in business depends on how you think. "The main difficulty of thinking is ...Show more