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Dubliners by James Joyce
$12.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Includes stories about Dublin life.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck creat ...Show more
Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Years later he would be beatified. Evelyn Waugh's compelling and elegant narrative is a homage to the man he revered as a poet, scholar, hero and mart ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others.
Emma (Penguin Classics Threads Deluxe Edition) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work. This Penguin Threads edition includes cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe French flaps. Commissioned by award-winning Penguin art director Paul Buckl ...Show more
Enemies: A Love Story by SINGER ISAAC BASHEVIS
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Herman Broder, a refugee and Holocaust survivor, has three women in his life: Yadwiga, the loyal Polish peasant who hid him in a hayloft from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife. Unsure of who he really is, what he wants and whether he can ever find peace, ...Show more
Equus by Peter Shaffer
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking exploration of the limits of faith, of the intersecting worlds of the sacred and profane, and of the paltry value of a 'mundane' life, published in Penguin Modern Classics. When a ...Show more
Eroticism by George Bataille
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential study he links the underlying sexual basis of religion to ...Show more
Essays by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.
Faces of Love: Hafez...Poets of Shiraz by Hafez; Dick Davis (Translator, Introduction by); Hafez; Jahan Malek Khatun; Obayd-e Zakani
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of fourteenth-century Persian literature.Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable liter ...Show more
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson by Hunter S. Thompson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'It would not do to be found in the desert under these circumstances: firing wildly into the cactus from a car full of drugs'. "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone" showcases the evolution of the writer of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Hell's Angels", through his work at the magazine that he help ...Show more
Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart by Irmgard Keun
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to be. The black market in jam and corsets is booming, half-destroyed houses offer opportunities for stealing doors and eggcups, and de-Nazification parties are all the rage. Recently released from a prisoner-of-war camp, Ferdinand drifts around the ci ...Show more