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PENGUIN ACTS OUT – Part The Fourth

by mwgerard Posted on August 13, 2012

Penguin has got himself into trouble this time!

He had a weak point — this Fortunato — although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine.

We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.

The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe

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PENGUIN ACTS OUT – Part the Third

by mwgerard Posted on August 3, 2012

One of the the wildest stories related to a Yellow Diamond — a famous gem in the native annals of India. … Partly from its peculiar colour, partly from a superstition which represented it as feeling the influence of the deity whom it adored, and growing and lessening in lustre with the waxing and waning of the moon, it first gained the name by which it continuues to be know in India to this day — the name of THE MOONSTONE. …

And the Moonstone was seized by an officer of rank in the army of Aurungzebe.

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by mwgerard Posted on May 25, 2012

In anticipation of the release of the latest edition of the Penguin English Library, the folks on twitter asked us readers what we’d like to ask the editor of the series. I sent in a number of queries, some of which he answered! You can watch the video here:

Penguin English Library – Simon Winder