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Death Of Grass, The
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and riots, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it turns out, the governments have been lying to their people. When the deadly disease hits B ...Show more
Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen; Anon
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Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tove is only twenty, but she's already famous, a published poet and wife of a much older literary editor. Her path in life seems set, but she has no idea of the struggles that lie ahead - love affairs, an unwanted pregnancy, physical pain and crippling opioid addiction. As the years go by, the central t ...Show more
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari i ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich fa ...Show more
Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | 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
England Your England by George Orwell
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
England Your England' is one of the most compelling and insightful portraits of the nation ever written. Shot through with Orwell's deeply felt sense of patriotism and love for his homeland, the essay is at the same time unfailingly clear-eyed about the nation's failings- entrenched social inequality, a ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy; Margaret Drabble (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
'I cannot allow any man to - to criticize my private conduct!' Young, attractive and impetuous, Bathsheba has inherited a farm and is determined to be as independent as possible. Her natural beauty is a magnet for men; how will she choose between them? Gabriel Oak is a young farmer, just set up in busin ...Show more
Fever and Spear (Your Face Tomorrow, Vol 1) by Javier Marías
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa 'I am myself my own fever and pain' Jacques Deza has been told he has a gift- he can see through people; guess just from their faces what will become of them. When he encounters the enigmatic Bertram Tupra at a party, Deza is persuaded to join a mysterious underground g ...Show more
Forbidden Colours by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Written when Mishima was only twentysix, "Forbidden Colors" is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in "Mann's Death in Venice", the older man's longing for the beauty of you ...Show more
Fremder by Russell Hoban
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Fourth Galaxy, 4 November 2052- in the blackness of space a figure in blue overalls tumbles over and over as it drifts towards the planet Badr-al-Budur. No space suit, no helmet, no oxygen. He can't be alive, can he? But he is. First Navigator Fremder Gorn is the only survivor when the Corporation tanke ...Show more
Frolic of the Beasts The by Mishima Yukio
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Frolic of the Beaststells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle between a former university student, Koji; his would-be mentor, the eminent literary critic Ippei Kusakado; and Ippei's beautiful, enigmatic wife, Yuko. When brought fa ...Show more
George Orwell: A Life in Letters by George Orwell
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Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Personal as well as political, Orwell's letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man. We are privy to snatched glimpses of his family life: his son Richard's developing teeth, the death of his wife Eileen, and his own illness. Candid portraits of Barcelona during the Spanish Civi ...Show more