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Blue of Noon by BATAILLE GEORGES
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors the fi ...Show more
Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Sylish, shimmering and amoral, Sagan's tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera was her masterpiece, published when she was just eighteen. However, this frank and explicit novella was considered too daring for 1950s Britain, and sexual scenes were removed for the English publication. Now t ...Show more
Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie
$22.95 AUD
Category: Art & Music | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This is the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the founder of modern American folk music. It is a funny, cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression, and of his subsequent travels in, on and under trains, in stolen cars and on his feet round America.
Buddhist Scriptures by Donald Lopez
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
While Buddhism has no central text comparable to the Bible or Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the teachings of the Buddha. In this rich anthology, eminent scholar Donald S. Lopez, Jr., brings together works from a broad historical and geograp ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It describes corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally ... an inferior people'. When Flor ...Show more
Call for the Dead by John le Carré
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. John le Carr 's latest novel, A Legacy of Spies, is now available. "Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on you ...Show more
Capital: Volume II by Karl Marx, David Bach
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.
Cicero - Selected Works by Cicero
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics. Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary ...Show more
City Of God by St Augustine
$32.99 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and "City of God" is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of R ...Show more
Claudius the God by Robert Graves; Barry Unsworth (Foreword by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Read in the style of a secret diary, this famous sequel toI, Claudiusgives a wry and human view of the Roman world, bringing to life some of the most scandalous and violent times in history.Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. He reco ...Show more
Cloudstreet: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1992 - Penguin Australian Classics by Tim Winton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Two rural families - the Pickles and the Lambs - flee to the city after separate catastrophes. They find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch - and for twenty years, they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until the ...Show more
Collected Poems: PMC by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nabokov's masterly "Collected Poems" span the decades of his career, from "Music", written in 1914, to the short, playful "To Vera", composed in 1974. "The University Poem", one of Nabokov's major poetic works, is here in English for the first time: an extraordinary autobiographical poem looking back at ...Show more