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North-South: Penguin Underground Lines
Northern, Bakerloo, Victoria and Jubilee
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Read stories inspired by the four Underground lines that run North and South through city - part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin.
Comedy and capitalism join in four tales:
The Northern...
The Penguin Book of English Song
Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
The Penguin Book of English Song anthologizes the work of 100 English poets who have inspired a host of different composers (some English, some not) to write vocal music. Each of the chapters, arranged chronologically from Chaucer to Auden, opens with a precis of the poet's life, work and, often,...
by Jorge Amado
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A Penguin Classic
Widely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of Joaquim...
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Three Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
One crowdsourced storyline, three finely crafted stories by Penguin authors Nicci French, Tim Weaver and Alastair Gunn.
What crime has been committed?
Who is the victim?
And who will solve the case?
Write a short crime story, using plot details crowdsourced on Twitter. This was the challenge we put...
by David Parlett
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun and by serious players.
Auctions, trumpless hands, cross-ruffing and lurching: card players have a language all of their own. From games of high skill (Bridge)...
by Roger McGough
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
It Never Rains by Roger McGough - an expanded edition of comic verse and free line drawings, from the nation's favourite poet
While up at Magdalen
Spent the time dagdalen.
Moved on to Caius
Became the baius knaius.
'Oxford Blues' is one of the many new poems in this expanded and revised...
by Jennifer Crwys-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This is the third Penguin Dictionary of South African Quotations to be compiled by journalist and writer Jennifer Crwys-Williams. It is an all-new, 500-page slice of pure South Africana. Containing thousands of entries and spanning the first eight years of the 21st century, there is something for...
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature
Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
**The first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, and Warsan Shire, with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat, author of Everything Inside
A Penguin Classic**
Every year, three to four million people move to...
The Siege of Tsingtao: The only battle of the First World War to be fought in East Asia: how it came about and why its aftermath is still relevant today: Penguin Specials
The only battle of the First World War to be fought in East Asia: how it came about and why its aftermath is still relevant today: Penguin Specials
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
In 1914, Europe was not the only continent coming to terms with a new form of conflict. Through a mix of complex alliances and global ambition, the war had spread to northern China, where the German-held port of Tsingtao became a key battleground. To strike a blow at Kaiser Wilhelm's naval forces,...
by Marion von Adlerstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
How should one reply to an invitation - or behave at a Hindu wedding, or select an appropriate anniversary gift, or write a letter of condolence, or eat tricky foods like artichokes?The Penguin Book of Etiquette is the definitive guide to modern manners in Australia. Entertaining and witty, it guides...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
**Dive into centuries of mermaid lore with these captivating tales from around the world.
A Penguin Classic**
Among the oldest and most popular mythical beings, mermaids and other merfolk have captured the imagination since long before Ariel sold her voice to a sea witch in the beloved...
Storm of Steel
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
**One of the great war memoirs, now featuring a foreword by the New York Times bestselling author of Matterhorn in time for the centenary of World War I and the Battle of the Somme
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A worldwide bestseller published shortly after the end of World War I, Storm of Steel is a memoir of astonishing...
by John Steinbeck
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1980
An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in a deluxe centennial edition
In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass...
by John Steinbeck
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
A Penguin Classic
In the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck’s masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In search of a respite from the national stage, Steinbeck and his close friend, biologist...