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Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United St ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Her last completed novel, marrying witty social realism to a 'Cinderella' love story, Jane Austen's "Persuasion" is edited with an introduction by Gillian Beer in "Penguin Classics". Anne Elliot, twenty-seven and still single, seems destined for spinsterhood. In her youth, she broke off an engagement to ...Show more
Philosophy in the Boudoir by Marquis De Sade; Joachim Neugroschel (Translator); Francine du Plessix Gray (Foreword by); Tomer Hanuka (Illustrator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Philosophy in the Bedroom accounts the lascivious education of a privileged young lady at the dawn of womanhood. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global book ...Show more
Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
First published in the 1920's, "The Prophet" an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, the book is perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the Twentieth Century and has sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. Gibran's protagonist, called simply 'the "Prophet"', delivers ...Show more
Road Not Taken and Other Poems by Robert Frost
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
A deluxe edition of Frost s early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of The Road Not Taken For one hundred years, Robert Frost s The Road Not Taken has enchanted and challenged readers with its deceptively simple premise a person reaches a fork in the road, facing a choice full of doub ...Show more
Satori in Paris by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
This semi-autobiographical tale of Kerouac's own trip to France, to trace his ancestors and explore his own understanding of the Buddhism that came to define his beliefs, contains some of Kerouac's most lyrical descriptions. From his reports of the strangers he meets and the all-night conversations he e ...Show more
Selected Poems: W. B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This selection of the works of W B Yeats, includes the final book from the unfairly neglected narrative poem "The Wanderings of Oisin" and a number of lyrics from Yeats' work as poetic dramatist. It breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozen poems in alternative versions; in many ot ...Show more
Shallows by Tim Winton
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
No.1 Australian Bestseller.Author Published Internationally. Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passinig defines the rythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begin ...Show more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
This edition has a NEW introduction by PAULO COELHO. Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and mo ...Show more
South: The Endurance Expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning 28 men on the polar ice. Alone in ...Show more
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
This title is presented with a new translation by David Horrocks. At first sight Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage ...Show more
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that's just naturally bad.