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Persuasion by Jane Austen
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Her last completed novel, marrying witty social realism to a 'Cinderella' love story, Jane Austen's "Persuasion" is edited with an introduction by Gillian Beer in "Penguin Classics". Anne Elliot, twenty-seven and still single, seems destined for spinsterhood. In her youth, she broke off an engagement to ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
$35.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound 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. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fi ...Show more
Quiet Days in Clichy by Henry Miller
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Here, even if I had a thousand dollar in my pocket, I know of no sight which could arouse in me the feeling of ecstasy'. Looking back to Henry Miller's bohemian life in 1930s Paris, when he was an obscure, penniless writer, Quiet Days in Clichy is a love letter to a city. As he describes nocturnal wande ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past - 3 volume set by Marcel Proust / Moncrieff
$25.00 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C K Scott Mon ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 2 by Marcel Proust / Moncrieff
$25.00 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott M ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 3 by Marcel Proust / Moncrieff
$25.00 AUD
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott M ...Show more
Requiem: A Hallucination by Antonio Tabucchi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon, in this brilliant homage to Tabucchi's country, culture and peopleIn the city of Lisbon, Requiem's narrator has an appointment to meet someone on a quay by the Tagus at twelve. Misunderstanding twelve to mean noon as opposed to midnig ...Show more
Rossetti: His Life and Works by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nienteenth century, from one of the greatest writers of the twentiethEvelyn Waugh's first book, Rossetti, is an intimate account of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's tragic and mysterious life- the story behind some of the greatest poetry and painting of the ninet ...Show more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
This edition has a NEW introduction by PAULO COELHO. Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and mo ...Show more
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ...like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void' With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of the future. His effervescent last works, left unfinish ...Show more
Spy Hook by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Spy Bernard Samson is forced on the run from his own government in this nail-biting first instalment of the Hook, Line and Sinker seriesMillions of pounds have gone missing, and the Department have sent agent Bernard Samson to Washington to track them down. But this mission is just the start of somethin ...Show more
Spy Line by Len Deighton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The second book of the Hook, Line and Sinker series finds Bernard Samson on the run through Berlin, Vienna and PragueBernard Samson is a spy on the run. But in the murky streets of Berlin, he knows where to hide. Wanted for an act of treachery he has not committed, he must not only escape the grasp of L ...Show more