Polka Dot Rock Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Guys! Penguin have started something called Blog a Penguin Classic: Get involved with the biggest ever Classics blog, guaranteed to get the nation, and you, talking. Each of the 1,400 Penguin Classics is up for grabs and here's how it works: Sign-up, and if you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Oh my... The Penguin Book Of Romantic Poetry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~V~ Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Hunt for the Southern Continent by James Cook Not something I'd ever buy so should be a challenge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sofia Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 it is only for residents of the UK or Eire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nici Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 I am getting The complete short stories! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 I'm getting Silent spring can't say I've heard of it, ah well I like surprises!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyB Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Papers and Journals . . . intriguing! Thanks PDR - looking forward to receiving it, reading it, and reviewing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Thanks for the link PDR, your greatness is just great;) I got 'Jason and the Golden Fleece':D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyanddandy Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 I got 'The Spy Who Loved Me' is that a James Bond? - is that a classic? I am going to struggle with it - hope it's thin!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicx27 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 I got The Storm by Daniel Defoe. Hope I don't struggle - classics aren't always my thing, but I'll give it a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Thanks PDR for the link! I am going to get The Pot of Gold and Other Plays. Well that will be different Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~V~ Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Ha ha ha ha this is great PDR. So funny seeing people get books they'd never buy themselves. And we're all rushing becaues it's free books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyB Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 I love the fact it's a lucky dip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aromaannie Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 I'm getting The Virgin And The Gipsy I don't normally read classics - hope it's not hardgoing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aromaannie Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 I'm getting The Virgin And The Gipsy I don't normally read classics - hope it's not hardgoing Just had a look on Amazon Synopsis Yvette is an innocent rector's daughter. When she meets a handsome gypsy she feels him watching her, acutely aware of her virginity. Half drawn to him and half afraid, it is only when her life is endangered that she finally feels true love. United by the theme of love, the writings in the "Great Loves" series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 You can't get more hard going than classic romantic poetry!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icecream Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Well my email must have got lost as it hasn't arrived yet so I'm not getting anythig yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nici Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Here's what it says on the Penguin website about The Complete Short Stories: Author: H. H. Munro In these macabre, acid and very funny short stories, Saki drives a knife into the upper crust of English Edwardian life. Here we meet in particular two of his most brilliant creations, the self-possessed Clovis and the vain and supremely stylish Reginald. There is tea on the lawn, the smell of gunshot, the tinkle of the caviar fork and beneath it all the half-seen, half-felt menace lying beneath the polished surface of society. This is the cover of the book:- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyB Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Just discovered mine is 700 pages long and I'm not sure what it's about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Thanks PDR for the link! I am going to get The Pot of Gold and Other Plays. Well that will be different This will be a complete change for me!!! According to Amazon, it's written by Titus Plautus over 2000 yrs ago and is still relevant and funny today. O well always up for a challenge me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nici Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 I got 'The Spy Who Loved Me' is that a James Bond? - is that a classic? Here's yours HandD!!! - Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers - the perverse Sol Horror and the deadly Sluggsy Morant. When a coolly charismatic Englishman turns up, Viv, in terrible danger, is not just hopeful, but fascinated. Because he is James Bond, 007, the man she hopes will save her, the spy she hopes will love her ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nici Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Just discovered mine is 700 pages long and I'm not sure what it's about. And here's yours Judy:- Drawn from Kierkegaard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mia Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Thanks for the link, PDR! I'd never have known about this otherwise. And here's yours Judy:- Drawn from Kierkegaard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyB Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Thanks for the link, PDR! I'd never have known about this otherwise. I'm quite glad I didn't get this one! My heart sank a bit when I was allocated "Plays Extravagant" because I'd never heard of it and I'm not keen on plays. A hasty trip to Amazon reveals that it's a collection of three plays by George Bernard Shaw. I've never read any of his work, but I like My Fair Lady, which was (no doubt very loosely) based on Pygmalion, another of his, so I might like it. I'm quietly concerned about my selection - I desperately want to enter into the spirit of it but . . . 700 pages of philosophy - help! I've read Barnard Shaw's Pygmalion and enjoyed it - I think you'll be fine with the plays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Is it open only to members in the U.K., or can folks from other countries also receive a free book? I looked on their website, but they didn't address this question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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