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Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
$22.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien ...Show more
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene by Adonis
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Written in the early 1960s by Adonis, 'the most eloquent spokesman and explorer of Arabic modernity' (Edward Said), Songs of Mihyar the Damascene is widely considered to be the apex of the modernist poetry movement in the Arab world, and a radical departure from the rigid formal structures that had domi ...Show more
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger; Michael Hoffman (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics. 'As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters. They seemed to ...Show more
Supreme Court Decisions by Jay M Feinman (Rutgers University)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Civic Classics | Reading Level: near fine
In time for the upcoming election season, Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and--above all--essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of "The Penguin Guide to the U.S. Constitution," draws together the great t ...Show more
Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In Kingsley Amis' "Take A Girl Like You", twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl who moves south, wants to fit in and yet wants to pres ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: near fine
A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is edited with notes by Tim Dolin and an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet in "Penguin Classics". When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship ...Show more
That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In "That Uncertain Feeling" by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and desirable village socialite, Elizabeth Gruffyd-Williams, who is married to a member of the local Counc ...Show more
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
$27.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Saul Bellow's American masterpiece, "The Adventures of Augie March" includes an introduction by Christopher Hitchens in "Penguin Modern Classics". A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, i ...Show more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
$9.94 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Wild Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again, raising Cain. He won't rest until he has Huck's money. So the enterprising boy fakes his own death and sets out in search of adventure and freedom. But Huck finds himself wrestling with his conscience. Should he save Jim, or ...Show more
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from their dens of inequity...The twelve mysteries gathered in this first collection of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's adventures reveal the brilliant consulting detective at the ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun-tzu John Minford (Introduction by, Translator)
$19.95 AUD
Category: New Age | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A stunning Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of the world's most famous military treatise, by the award-winning translator of the Tao Te Ching and the I ChingFor more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics and management strategi ...Show more
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Malcolm X's blazing, legendary autobiography, completed shortly before his assassination in 1965, depicts a remarkable life: a child born into rage and despair, who turned to street-hustling and cocaine in the Harlem ghetto, followed by prison, where he converted to the Black Muslims and honed the energ ...Show more