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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
$30.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
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, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to ...Show more
Hard Times (Clothbound Classics) by Charles Dickens
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Grad ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
$14.99 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
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west ...the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing.' Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely contained violence; the Hell's Angels could paralyse ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. It also offers a personal background to the subtexts of his later novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's experiences include bei ...Show more
Hour Of The Star by Clarice Lispector
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macab a, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macab a loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monro ...Show more
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this honest and stunning novel, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, B ...Show more
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, t ...Show more
In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinczey
$26.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good - very good
'You cannot put it down: witty, moving and it's all about sex' - Margaret Drabble. 'A masterpiece ...dazzling ...like all great novels, it shows the truth about life' - Le Monde. 'At the basis of pleasure, of eroticism, Vizinczey places consciousness. His novel consists of scenes which you can see ...St ...Show more
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
Inheritance by Louisa M. Alcott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics S.
Louisa May Alcott, who spent much of her childhood amid an intellectual circle that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, embarked on her own literary efforts at an early age. Her recently discovered first novel, The Inheritance, written when Alcott was just 17, offers re ...Show more
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
$35.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Contains stories which range geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps.