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Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai. Manjing is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shujun, the son of wealthy merchants. Despite family complications, they fall in ...Show more
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
$12.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, Mr Thomas Gradgrind bans fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. Then, their fortunes cross with a circus girl Sissy Jupe a ...Show more
Heart Of Darkness (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Joseph Conrad
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism in a deluxe edition with a gripping cover by "Hellboy" artist Mike Mignola "Heart of Darkness" is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recounting his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz- dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. Travelling upriver to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, w ...Show more
Heart of Darkness with The Congo Diary by Joseph Conrad
$9.94 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Marlow voyages into the wildness and jungle of the Belgian Congo to meet Kurtz, a company agent, and having found him, realizes that Kurtz has won supremacy over the natives through unrestrained violence. The story explores the workings of the subconscious, and addresses political imperialism.
History of the Peloponnesian War by THUCYDIDES
$2.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Translated by Rx Warner. Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c. 460-400 BC) was an Athenian and a ...Show more
I Want it Now by Kingsley Amis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupied with this question as he pursues wealthy heiress Simona Quick over two continents in the company of braying aristocrats, Greek shipping magnates, Americ ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those i ...Show more
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful and tactile cloth. Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inf ...Show more
Iron Gustav - A Berlin Family Chronicle by Hans Fallada
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
This is a powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling author of Alone in Berlin. 'You only want to tyrannise, you're only happy when we're all trembling before you. You're just like your Kaiser. He who doesn't obey is sh ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Jane EyreBy Charlotte Brontëm grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fe ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faith ...Show more