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...Doubtful Guest," for example, one of Gorey's more charming tales, is about a silent, penguin-like creature who rings the doorbell of a family's home and refuses to leave. The passivity with which the genteel family accepts the intruder--despite his repeated attempts to eat the gramophone--typifies Gorey's stylized and subdued world...
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice costs $7.95 at the Coop for the Penguin Classics edition, whereas the Dover edition at Wordsworth books costs only...
...just me, or does the illustration you ran of Perot and a photo showing him in profile also remind others of the Penguin character in Batman? DON MOSS Springfield, Illinois...
...rest, and though it is customary to say of concluding novels that they can be read independently, this is emphatically not true of the Buru Quartet, whose first three volumes, including Child of All Nations and Footsteps, have just been republished in paperback by Penguin...
...reading Crime and Punishment (by Fido Dogstoyevsky) or Pluto's Republic or Electronics for Dogs. The typical plot: Wallace will be seized by some selfish idea--flying to the moon for a cheese snack in A Grand Day Out or renting out Gromit's room to a pistol-packin' penguin in The Wrong Trousers or courting a sheep-napping femme fatale in A Close Shave--and Gromit will pitch us a conspiratorial sigh with a mute eloquence worthy of Buster Keaton. The put-upon pooch will then save Wallace in a breathless climax whose brio and ingenuity shame any live...