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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 ...
Read on for full details.
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rom across the room, Sheba had assumed he was a Year
Eight or Year Nine pupil. But at close range, he seemed
older. His upper body had a solid, triangular look. His
hands and forearms were unexpectedly large. She could see the
beginnings of bristle on his chin.
Sheba has always maintained that Connolly is a terrifically attractive
boy and, to be fair to her, several female newspaper columnists have made observations to similar effect. ("Glowering and exotic" one woman in the Mail called him a few weeks back.) I don't see it, I must confess. I have never been physically drawn to any of my pupils of course, so I may not be the best person to assess the boy's charms. Yet, I rather think that if my tastes had run in that direction, I would have fixed upon someone a little prettier: a delicate-boned, downy-faced boy in the lower school perhaps. Connolly is not pretty in the slightest. Sheba insists that he has superb skin and it is true, I suppose, that he has been spared the sort of suppurating carbuncles to which boys of his age are prone. But what she refers to as his "olive complexion" has always struck me as rather dingy. I can never lay eyes on the boy without wanting to give his face a good going-over with a hot flannel.
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