Penguin Classics Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Oil!

Upton Sinclair

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OIL! by Upton Sinclair edited with an introduction by @MichaelTondre is on sale today! Start reading the searing indictment of fossil fuels that predicts our current warming planet while imagining a greener and more inclusive future🌎🍃☀️: https://t.co/KLaYF740mY https://t.co/a1vx11IIew

Paperback, 2023

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Passing

Nella Larsen

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.@tmagazine names THE NEW YORK TRILOGY by Paul Auster, PASSING by Nella Larsen, and NATIVE SPEAKER by Chang-Rae Lee some of the most significant New York City novels from the last 100 years! 📚👏 https://t.co/AI4fvLjB3Y

Paperback, 2003

$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel of post-war disillusionment THE SUN ALSO RISES is now available from Penguin Classics! This deluxe edition features an introduction by bestselling author @amortowles and stunning cover art by R. Kikuo Johnson. Learn more 📖https://t.co/tKGfUr8Vso https://t.co/ratjvPLcpN

Paperback, 2022

$12.00$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

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Happy #NationalSiblingsDay! Celebrate today by revisiting one of the most iconic sibling groups in literature, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy in Louisa May Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN! https://t.co/CyHFVCZ4Zt https://t.co/7Sx0cb87fo

Hardcover, 2014

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

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“His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.” —Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, which was published #onthisday in 1843. How many times have you read it? 🎄 https://t.co/gmWv2DBxzg

Paperback, Mass Market, 1986

$5.99$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James

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Happy cozy pub day to our two new gorgeous Penguin Vitaes: Edith Wharton’s THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY with a foreword by Sofia Coppola and Henry James’s THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY with a foreword by Brandon Taylor! ✨ https://t.co/2lXDSZt73J

Paperback, 2014

$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Emma

Jane Austen

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Season 2 of #Bridgerton is finally here! Need something to read after binge-watching the new episodes? We recommend the regency classic (and most gossipy of Jane Austen's novels), EMMA! https://t.co/5k4Cv9YsZ9 https://t.co/Ty4rE77DHM

Hardcover, 2024

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

1984: 75th Anniversary

George Orwell

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Don't miss Yevgeny Zamyatin's WE, the exhilarating Russian dystopian novel of totalitarian mass surveillance that inspired George Orwell's 1984, now with a new foreword by the National Book Award-winning journalist @mashagessen. https://bit.ly/2WzA8Ch https://t.co/ELXDurjYyj

Paperback, Mass Market, 1950

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

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"We need the tonic of wildness."--Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN We're celebrating #EarthDay with some of our favorite environmentalist classics, including books by Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, and John Muir. 🍃🌎https://t.co/yTLV5gZZm7 https://t.co/uqEw6KP8zo

Hardcover, 2016

$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Dubliners

James Joyce

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This #StPatricksDay we're rereading DUBLINERS, James Joyce’s unflinching portrait of “dear dirty Dublin.” 🍀🍀🍀https://t.co/dmo0Fxlm1x https://t.co/njMP9xNIhC

Paperback, 1993

$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book