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  • Published: 17 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141190242
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $24.99

The Graduate




New to Penguin Modern Classics, with an introduction by Hanif Kureishi

As far as Benjamin Braddock's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, he will go to Yale or Harvard, get a good job and enjoy a life of money, cocktails and pool parties in the suburbs, just like them. For Benjamin, however, this isn't quite enough. When his parents' friend Mrs Robinson, a formidable older woman, strips naked in front of him and they begin an affair, it seems he might have found a way out. That is, until her daughter Elaine comes into the picture, and things get far more complicated.

  • Published: 17 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141190242
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Charles Webb

Charles Webb was born in California. His first novel, The Graduate, was made into the acclaimed film. Six years ago he moved to the UK to write a novel based on a English character, which was published as New Cardiff. He and his wife Fred remained in Great Britain and are now living in Hove, Sussex.

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Praise for The Graduate

He writes with this lovely, spare style

Nick Hornby