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A Long Night at Abu Simbel by Penelope Lively
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Category: Gift Books | Series: Penguin 60s S.
Three short stories, the first of which focuses on a group of people trapped in an Egyptian airport without a tour guide. The second looks at a woman's outrage when a cat impregnates her kitten, and the third examines the end of an affair. All three explore beneath the veneer of good behaviour.
Death of a Nobody by Georges Simenon
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin 60s S.
Two of Simenon's Maigret crime stories, which originally appeared in "Maigret's Christmas".
From the Four Corners by Jan Morris
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin 60s S.
Four extracts from Morris's book "Among the Cities", called "Manhattan", "Delhi", "Sydney" and "Vienna."
Gunner Milligan by Spike Milligan
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin 60s S.
This is the first part of Spike Milligan's war memoirs.
Killing the Angel in the House by Virginia Woolf
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin 60s S.
A text comprising seven essays on feminism and women's issues. They are "The Feminine Note in Fiction", "Women Novelists", "The Intellectual Status of Woman", "Two Women", "Memories of a Working Women's Guild", "Professions for Women" and "Ellen Terry".
Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin 60s S.
Edith Wharton's "Madame de Treymes" is a remarkable example of the form. It is the story of the tactical defeat but moral victory of an honest and upstanding American in his struggle to win a wife from a tightly united but feudally minded French aristocratic family. He loses, but they cheat. . . . In a ...Show more
Matilda's England by William Trevor
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin 60s S.
These three short stories add up to a whole. Set before, during and after World War II, they form a biography of Matilda, third child of a farmer and his wife. She grows up in the shadow of Challacombe, which, in the end, dominates her life and dictates her fate, and represents much more.
The Portobello Road by Muriel Spark
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin 60s S.
This is a collection of four short stories taken from "The Collected Stories" of Muriel Spark: "The Portobello Road", "Bang-Bang You're Dead", "The Seraph and the Zambesi" and "The Dragon".
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