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The Go-Between is a novel by L. P. Hartley published in 1953. His best-known work, it has been adapted several times for stage and screen. The book gives a critical view of society at the end of the Victorian era through the eyes of a naïve schoolboy outsider.
Penguin Classics: Catalogue 01. Mrs Rosie and the Priest - Giovanni Boccaccio 02. As kingfishers catch fire - Gerard Manley Hopkins 03. The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue - Anon 04. On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Thomas De Quincey 05. Aphorisms on Love and Hate - Friedrich Nietzsche 06. Traffic - John Ruskin 07. Wailing Ghosts ...
Penguin's English edition of Yuri Krimov's novel The Tanker "Derbent". The Second World War saw Penguin emerge as a national institution. Though it had no formal role in the war effort, it was integral to it thanks to the publication of such bestselling manuals as Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps and Aircraft Recognition, and supplying books for the services and British POWs.
Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for "salt and freshly ground black people." 9 misprints that are worth a ...
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In 1996, Penguin Books published as a paperback A Complete Annotated Listing of Penguin Classics and Twentieth-Century Classics (ISBN 0-14-771090-1). This article covers editions in the series: black label (1970s), colour-coded spines (1980s), the most recent editions (2000s), and Little Clothbound Classics Series (2020s).
The Penguin Collectors' Society have published two bibliographies of the early, pre-ISBN (referred to as 'L') editions: firstly in 1994, with an update in 2008. Also in 2008, Penguin Books USA published a complete annotated listing of all Penguin Classics titles in a single paperback volume in the style of its Penguin Classics books. The list ...
Opened in 2010, the Go Between Bridge in Brisbane is named after the band. The focal point of The Go-Betweens was the song writing skills of Forster and McLennan, described by The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau as "the greatest songwriting partnership working today." Each developed a distinctive but complementary style: Forster's songs ...