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A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School- firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doyleys and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. As Smiley probes further ...Show more
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
Magnus Pym, high-ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on- for a missing husband, a devoted father and a secret agent. Pym's life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets. Dominated by a father who is also a confidence trickster on an epic scale, Pym has from the age of ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks
This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles that must be overcome on the path toward a harmonious unity of the sexes.
A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As he gets clos ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Category: Gender Studies | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft's argument continues to challenge and inspire. This revised and expanded Third Edition is again based on the 1792 second-edition text and is accompanied by revised and expa ...Show more
Beyond Good And Evil: Pocket Hardbacks by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God. Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and subversive energy, Nietzsche demands that the indi ...Show more
Civilization and its Discontents: Pocket Hardbacks by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud ...Show more
Dune (SF Masterworks) by Frank Herbert
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Category: Sci-Fi, Speculative & Fantasy | Series: Hardback
The Duke of Atreides has been manoeuvred by his arch-enemy, Baron Harkonnen, into administering the desert planet of Dune. Although it is almost completely without water, Dune is a planet of fabulous wealth, for it is the only source of a drug prized throughout the Galactic Empire. The Duke and his son, ...Show more
Essays and Aphorisms: Pocket Hardbacks by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many ...Show more
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard; Alastair Hannay (Introduction by)
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
Little Drummer Girl The by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young actress, is lured into 'the theatre of the real' by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist.The Little Drummer Girlis a thrilling, deeply ...Show more
Our Game by John le Carré
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Category: No Category | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
Le Carré's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry - dreamer, diss ...Show more