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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This anthology contains twelve key stories from the first two years of Spider-Man's publication history (from 1962 to 1964). These influential adventures not only transformed the super hero fantasy into an allegory for the pain of adolescence but also brought a new ethical complexity to the genre--by insisting that with great power there must also come great responsibility.
242) We
Author
Series
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
A dystopian novel completed in 1921, written in response to the author's personal experiences with the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, his life in the Newcastle suburb of Jesmond and work in the Tyne shipyards at nearby Wallsend during the First World War. It was at Tyneside that he observed the rationalization of labour on a large scale. The book influenced Orwell's 1984 and possibly Huxley's Brave new world.
Author
Series
Penguin music classics volume 2
Publisher
Decca Record Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
245) Lucky Jim
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1992.
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
A humorous novel about an amiable opportunist who finds himself, after the war, in the improbable role of an instructor in medieval history at one of Britain's new redbrick universities in a small British village.
247) The sea, the sea
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor both professionally and personally, and to amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors -...
249) If it die
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin, in association with Martin Secker & Warburg
Pub. Date
1977 1982.
Language
English
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