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The promotion of reading as the premier source of entertainment, excitement and empowerment is a responsibility that Penguin continues to feel proud to carry.
Ever since Allen Lane founded the company in the mid-1930s with the express intention of taking quality books to the masses, Penguin has been seen by people worldwide as the natural home of reading. In May 2003, almost half of the nation's favourite 100 books voted for in the BBC Big Read were Penguin titles.
7 July 2003, Penguin launches a campaign to encourage everyone to read more ...
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ou see, some of them just snivel. They're just like
an animal that's been half run over and it's flapping
around on the road and it's just waiting to be put
out of it's misery, to be stamped on. And others tried to
bargain with me. Like Fran. She said she'd do anything I
wanted if I let her go. As if she had anything to bargain with.
What do you think of that?'
I felt sick.
'I don't know.'
'Gail used to pray. I heard her when I took the gag off. Didn't do her any good.'
'How do you know?'
'What do you mean?'
'How do you know it didn't do her any good? You don't know.'
'I know, I promise you. Funny, isn't it? Some whined, some tried to be all seductive. You did a bit of that. Some prayed. Lauren, she fought and fought and never let up. Had to do her in quick. It all amounts to the same thing in the end.'
I wanted to cry. I wanted to sob and sob and be held and comforted and I knew that was the one thing I must never do. Then I would be the flapping wounded animal and he would stamp on me.
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