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The first 10 penguin books were published by bodley head and their success persuaded lane to launch penguin as a standalone publisher in 1936. Within a year, penguin had sold 3 million paperbacks and the skeptics, and there were many, had been proved wrong. One day, as she is sobbing uncontrollably, a young man named harry approaches her. She must learn that yelling all the time is not okay. Erudite, insightful, and resonant, the penguin book of witches is often grim, but provides invaluable historical context, and makes fascinating reading about a past that all too well illuminates. A dazzling exploration of american culturefrom high pop to highbrowby acclaimed music authority, cultural historian, and biographer anthony heilbut, author of the now classic the gospel sound definitive rolling stone, exiled in paradise, and thomas mann electricharold brodkey. In this fanciful tale, a boy unwraps a gift penguin and tries to make it talk.
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