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by Penguin Books Ltd
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017

THE ULTIMATE SURVIVAL GUIDE for anyone who thinks they'd survive the world's most hostile environments - or at least imagine they could do. ----------------------------- First issued to airmen in the 1950s, the Air Ministry's Sea Survival guide includes original and authentic emergency...

New Worlds, Lost Worlds

The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603

by Susan Brigden
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002

No period in British history has more resonance and mystery today than the sixteenth century. New Worlds, Lost Worlds brings the atmosphere and events of this great epoch to life. Exploring the underlying religious motivations for the savage violence and turbulence of the period-from Henry VIII's...
by The Sorted Crew, Ben Ebbrell
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013

Family Favourites is the eighth chapter from The Sorted Crew's new cookbook, Food with Friends. We've added our own little Sorted twist to a whole bunch of dinners that everyone knows and loves, helping you to break up your usual routine of recipes that you cook week in week out. When the average...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014

The Penguin English Library Edition The deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime, but a mole in Moriarty's criminal organization alerts Sherlock Holmes of the evil deed by means of a cipher . . . When Holmes and Watson arrive at a Sussex...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014

The Penguin English Library edition As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but there are many stories here which would get the vote - ranging from The Boscombe Valley Mystery to the wonderful Adventure of Silver Blaze, from the Adventure of the...
by Claude McKay
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020

**The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition. Published for the first time. A Penguin Classic** Buried in the...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007

Penguin Classics e-books give you the best possible editions of Charles Dickens's novels, including all the original illustrations, useful and informative introductions, the definitive, accurate text as it was meant to be published, a chronology of Dickens's life and notes that fill in the background...
by Fyodor Sologub, Ronald Wilks
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013

A dark classic of Russia's silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher's descent into sadism, arson and murder. Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and...

A Curiosity of Doubts

Penguin Special

by T. L. Uglow
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016

While society generally espouses the value of logic and certainty, we grow because we doubt. Humans have not spent millennia traversing oceans and experimenting with explosives because of confidence in their beliefs. Culture and science are rooted in unknowns, and when we accept doubt we are more...
by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019

For the first time in Penguin Classics, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's bestselling Civil War classic Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1868 Reconstruction-era novel The Gates Ajar, in its portrait of inconsolable grief following the American Civil War, helped to shape enduring American ideas about heaven...
by Mark O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014

It is a little known fact that during the First World War Russia received the majority of Chinese wartime labourers working overseas. Despite assurances that they would not be involved in the war, thousands of Chinese workers dug trenches and carried ammunition for troops on the Eastern Front under...
by Penguin Books Ltd
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017

THE ULTIMATE SURVIVAL GUIDE for anyone who thinks they'd survive the world's most hostile environments - or at least imagine they could do. ----------------------------- First issued to airmen in the 1950s, the Air Ministry's Sea Survival guide includes original and authentic emergency...

The Truce

The Diary of Martín Santomé

by Mario Benedetti
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015

'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.' Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles), a good salary and three moody children, widowed accountant Martín Santomé is about...

Salad Days

Penguin Special

by Ronnie Scott
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

In Salad Days, Ronnie Scott interrogates our current obsession with food - and asks whether it's actually such a bad thing. Salad Days takes us via the world's best restaurants in Noma and elBulli, and more humble yet no less delicious restaurants and caf�s in Melbourne, while interrogating how...
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