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The Penguin Magnum Collection. Book lovers won't be able to resist these must-have classics featuring stunning Magnum images. Rowland White, Penguin Publishing Director says, 'Our starting point was trying to dress six classic works of American reportage in cutting-edge design that properly reflected their style and substance, to bring them to the attention of a whole new readership.'
'Penguin has often used Magnum photographs on their covers, ensuring that the same audience gets to see great images from the archive. Magnum is proud to continue this tradition with this latest set of books, where Penguin's choice of images range from the quirky to the classic; these are photographs that truly represents the history and great diversity of Magnum Photos.' Mark Power: Photographer & Vice President London Office, Magnum Photos
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| In Cold Blood by Truman Capote |
A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin |
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. The book that made Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose. |
The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant step' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 250,000 miles away. A Man on the Moon is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme.
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| Hiroshima by John Hersey |
Hellfire by Nick Tosches |
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this heart-rending account of six men and women who survived despite all the odds. Hiroshima is a devastating picture of the long-term effects of one very small bomb. |
The dramatic and tormented life of Jerry Lee Lewis is the most fabled in rock 'n' roll history. Born in Louisiana to a family legacy of great courage and greater madness, Jerry Lee was torn throughout his life between a harsh Pentecostal God and the Devil of alcohol, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Hellfire is a brilliant, audacious journey into the soul of a rock 'n' roll legend, and into the soul of rock 'n' roll itself. |
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| Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson |
The Fight by Norman Mailer |
With 'long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips . . . and Harleys flashing chrome', the Hell's Angels erupted into 1960s America paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover the truths behind the marauding biker gangs, Hunter S. Thompson spent a year on the road with the Angels, documenting his hair-raising experiences. |
In 1975, at the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire, Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Together the two men made boxing history in an explosive meeting of two great minds, two iron wills and two monumental egos. |
New-look George Orwell
On the 60th anniversary of the publication of Nineteen-Eighty Four, we are celebrating one of the greatest authors of the
20th century with a beautiful edition of this groundbreaking work that changed the way we see the world forever.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: Anniversary Edition
First published in 1949, George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four has lost none of its impact and vision with which it first hit readers.
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101 ...
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The Complete Novels of George Orwell
Described by Anthony Burgess as 'the best-loved of all twentieth-century British writers', George Orwell still has as much power to move, amuse and provoke today.
His best-known novels, Animal Farm, describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, portraying a world where human freedom has been crushed, are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written. The other novels in this volume also tell stories of people at odds with repressive institutions: the corrupt imperialism of Burmese Days, disaffection with materialistic society in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, the perils of modern suburban living in Coming Up for Air and surviving on the streets in A Clergyman's Daughter.
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Australian Classics
Cult Classics: Books you can judge by their covers
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Hunter S. Thompson spent a year on the road with outlaw bikies the Hell's Angels. He documented his hair-raising experiences which resulted in Hell's Angels: a masterpiece of underground reportage whose free-wheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of Gonzo journalism, and made Thompson's name as the wild man of American writing.
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Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time.
This edition includes a new foreword by Kesey, a new text introduction by Robert Faggen, and line drawings the author made when writing the book, many never before published.
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From Timothy Leary's first trip (on psilocybin) in Mexico in 1960, his life's work became exploring and preaching the benefits - social, aesthetic and spiritual - that psychedelic drugs had to offer. Leary's experiements with LSD produced The Psychedelic Experience and, with it, the future of the counterculture.
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On the Road chronicles the travels of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty as the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience.
Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom defined the 'Beat' movement and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than forty years ago.
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In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Igatius J. Reilly propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh -pots of a fallen city, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that Igatius must go to work.
'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities... it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.' - The New York Times
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Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground.
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Here Andy Warhol talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success; about New York and America; about himself – his childhood, good times and bad times in the Big Apple, the explosion of his career in the Sixties, and life among celebrities.
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Pick up a Penguin Classic
There's no better time than now to relax with a book so why not pick up a Penguin Classic. Here's some recommendations from our Penguin Classics Publisher, Adam Freudenheim to kick-start your rediscovery of some of the best books ever written.
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George Eliot's Middlemarch
Among my three favourite Classics, I would choose George Eliot's Middlemarch, as the most perfect novel in English. How do I admire it? Let me count the ways. It is packed full of ideas and beautifully written with incredibly memorable characters - and I always think of it as the closest thing to a 19th century Russian novel to be found in the same period in English.
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Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory
The most sublime autobiography, for me, is Nabokov's Speak, Memory - it's stylistically very memorable, full of vivid recollections of a bygone childhood.
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See Adam speak more about the Penguin Classics in the video clips below.
Clip 1 - Adam talks about Penguin Classics
Clip 2 - Adam's favourite Classics
Clip 3 - Adam talks about Jack Kerouac and On The Road |
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