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Author : Donald Horne
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742284639
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins written by Donald Horne and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.' First published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled to its past. Popular Penguins He just wanted a decent book to read . . . Not too much to ask, was it? It was in 1935 when Allen Lane stood on a British railway platform looking for something good to read on his journey. His choice was limited to popular magazines and poor quality paperbacks. Lane's disappointment and subsequent anger at the range of books available led him to found a company - and change the world. 'We believed in the existence of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price, and staked everything on it.' Sir Allen Lane, 1902-1970, founder of Penguin Books Reading habits have changed since 1935, but Penguin still believes in publishing the best books for everyone to enjoy, and that quality books published passionately and responsibility make the world a better place.

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101659793
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cannery Row written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Dora, Mack and his boys, Lee Chong, and the other characters in this world where only the fittest survive, to create a novel that is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works. In her introduction, Susan Shillinglaw shows how the novel expresses, both in style and theme, much that is essentially Steinbeck: “scientific detachment, empathy toward the lonely and depressed…and, at the darkest level…the terror of isolation and nothingness.” 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 bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Nick Hornby
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141926546
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fever Pitch written by Nick Hornby and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR* Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic 'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book. . . inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming' Independent For many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it's more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. But, for Nick Hornby, his devotion to the game has provided one of few constants in a life where the meaningful things - like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships, both parental and romantic - have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal. Brimming with wit and honesty, Fever Pitch, catches perfectly what it really means to be a football fan - and in doing so, what it means to be a man. 'Hornby has put his finger on truths that have been unspoken for generations' Irish Times 'Funny, wise and true' Roddy Doyle

Author : Donald Horne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140110340
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Education of Young Donald written by Donald Horne and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802194052
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Junky written by William S. Burroughs and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of post-war America. The Burroughs-like protagonist of the novel, Bill Lee, see-saws between periods of addiction and rehab, using a panoply of substances including heroin, cocaine, marijuana, paregoric (a weak tincture of opium) and goof balls (barbiturate), amongst others. For this definitive edition, renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has gone back to archival typescripts to re-created the author's original text word by word. From the tenements of New York to the queer bars of New Orleans, Junky takes the reader into a world at once long-forgotten and still with us today. Burroughs’s first novel is a cult classic and a critical part of his oeuvre.

Author : Donald Horne
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742285384
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dying: a Memoir written by Donald Horne and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book is the last work of one of Australia's most respected and influential thinkers. On learning that his illness was terminal, Donald Horne began dictating his experiences of dying, and his resulting journal is full of courage, honesty, insight and humour. Ever the intellectual, he also recorded his last thoughts on some of the big human questions; faith and regret, the uses of art, the rewards of the engaged mind. And on contemporary dilemmas such as the Iraq War, anti-Americanism and the meaning of democracy. These essays have been refined by his wife and long-time editor, Myfanwy, who has also written her own inspirational account of Donald's final weeks. Far from being morbid, Dying is a book that sings with life. Donald Horne's memories of his well-lived years sit alongside his unflinching view of their end, and the whole is uplifted by his willingness to laugh at human foibles, his own included. PRAISE FOR DYING: A MEMOIR 'This book is a love story where the decades have not dulled two loves' devotion.' Craig Sherbourne, Australian Literary Review 'Full of Horne's self-deprecating wit and keen intellect. For people suffering from terminal illnesses and their loved ones this would be a particularly helpful memoir,' Sue Bond, Courier-Mail 'Must read' Daily Telegraph

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Memorable Classics Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Memorable Classics Books. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Audiobook is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. Plot summary: In spring 1922, Nick Carraway—a Yale alumnus from the Midwest and a World War I veteran—journeys to New York City to obtain employment as a bond salesman. He rents a bungalow in the Long Island village of West Egg, next to a luxurious estate inhabited by Jay Gatsby, an enigmatic multi-millionaire who hosts dazzling soirées yet doesn't partake in them. One evening, Nick dines with a distant cousin, Daisy Buchanan, in the fashionable town of East Egg. Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, formerly a Yale football star whom Nick knew during his college days. The couple has recently relocated from Chicago to a mansion directly across the bay from Gatsby's estate. There, Nick encounters Jordan Baker, an insolent flapper and golf champion who is a childhood friend of Daisy's. Jordan confides to Nick that Tom keeps a mistress, Myrtle Wilson, who brazenly telephones him at his home and who lives in the "valley of ashes", a sprawling refuse dump. hat evening, Nick sees Gatsby standing alone on his lawn, staring at a green light across the bay. Days later, Nick reluctantly accompanies a drunken and agitated Tom to New York City by train. En route, they stop at a garage inhabited by mechanic George Wilson and his wife Myrtle. Myrtle joins them, and the trio proceed to a small New York apartment that Tom has rented for trysts with her. Guests arrive and a party ensues, which ends with Tom slapping Myrtle and breaking her nose after she mentions Daisy. One morning, Nick receives a formal invitation to a party at Gatsby's mansion. Once there, Nick is embarrassed that he recognizes no one and begins drinking heavily until he encounters Jordan. While chatting with her, he is approached by a man who introduces himself as Jay Gatsby and insists that both he and Nick served in the 3rd Infantry Division during the war. Gatsby attempts to ingratiate himself with Nick and when Nick leaves the party, he notices Gatsby watching him.

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387010257
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prince written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Melissa Guion
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101647736
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baby Penguins Everywhere! written by Melissa Guion and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can there be such a thing as too many adorable penguins? One day a penguin sees a most unusual sight: a hat floating in the icy water. Even more unusual? Out of the hat pops a baby penguin. But not just one baby penguin . . . or even two. But a third, and a fourth, and on and on! At first the mama penguin is happy for the company. Until she realizes that taking care of a family is very hard, very tiring work, and what she could really use is just a moment alone. Yet as newcomer Melissa Guion reminds us in her adorable debut picture book, alone time is all well and good, but, it's together time that's best of all. Perfect for any mama penguin with a family, or classroom, full of mischievous little ones.

Author : Donald Horne
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780522852226
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On How I Came to Write 'the Lucky Country' written by Donald Horne and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication in 1964 of The Lucky Country changed the way that Australians thought about themselves. This work is an extract from Horne's memoirs that recalls the personal and public circumstances, which led him to write The Lucky Country.