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A Confederacy of Dunces: Popular Penguins by John Kennedy Toole
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Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly: flatulent, eloquent and pretty much unemployable . . . The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has ...Show more
A Room of One's Own: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
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Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and why neither of them could have written War and Peace, over the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (and imaginary) sister, over t ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly ...Show more
Eye in the Door (Popular Penguin) by Pat Barker
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
London, 1918. Billy Prior works for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men, pacifists, objectors and homosexuals conflict with his duties as a soldier, and before long his sense of himself fragments. Forced to consult the man who helped him before - army ...Show more
Holding the Man: Popular Penguins by Timothy Conigrave
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Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
With honesty and insight Holding the Man explores the highs and lows of any partnership, and the strength of heart both men have to find when they test positive to HIV.The mid-seventies - at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of ...Show more
Howl, Kaddish & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
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Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'The poem that defined a generation'Guardianon 'Howl' 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his n ...Show more
Junky by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld o ...Show more
Oracles and Miracles (Popular Penguin) by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
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Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: Very Good
Oracles and Miracles is Stevan Eldred-Grigg's best-selling debut novel about Ginnie and Fag, twin sisters growing up in poverty in Christchurch in the thirties and forties and living in a world of dreams. It's a city of 'peeling paint, flaking iron, cracked linoleum, dusty yards, lean-tos, and asphalts, ...Show more
Orlando: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Orlando, deciding not to grow old, pursues his quest for passion, adventure, fulfilment and protracted youth. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern world. Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashin ...Show more
Regeneration by Pat Barker
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Category: General Fiction | 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
The Ghost Road: Popular Penguins by Pat Barker
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Category: Out of Print | Series: Popular Penguins
Set in the closing months of World War I, this towering novel combines poetic intenstiy with gritty realism as it brings Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy to its stunning conclusion. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all "ghosts in the making." In England, psychologist Wi ...Show more
The History of Sexuality Volume 1 by Michel Foucault
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Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledgeis the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history of sexuality. He argues that the recent explosion of discussion about sex in the West means that, far from being liberated, we are in the process of making a science of sexuality that is devoted t ...Show more