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The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.
The Memoir of an Anti-Hero by Kornel Filipowicz
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Second World War. Poland. Our narrator has no intention of being a hero. He plans to survive this war, whatever it takes. Meticulously he recounts his experiences: the slow unravelling of national events as well as uncomfortable personal encounters on the street, in the café, at the office, in his ...Show more
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guervara
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An iconic bestseller- Che Guevara's account of his youthful adventures travelling around South America on his motorcycleAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native Argentina to explore their continent, with only a single 1939 Norton motorcyc ...Show more
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, explor ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories by Joost Zwagerman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, TLS 'There is a lot of northern European melancholy in the collection, though often tinged with wry humour...an excellent bo ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
The Rebel by Albert Camus
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Rebel" is Camus's attempt to understand the time 'I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions o ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Mr Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does his alluring yet alcoholic wife hire a private eye. The nameless detective has but two clues: a photo and a matchbook. With these, he embarks upon an ever-more-puzzling pursuit that leads him into the depths of Tokyo's ...Show more
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate; Julian Fellowes (Introduction by)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest hunt of the season. An army of gamekeepers, beaters, and servants has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual, the gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowsh ...Show more
The Snow Was Dirty by Georges Simenon
$20.00 AUD
$22.99 (13% off)
Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece. 'And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that look rotten, with black patches and embedded garbage ...unable to cover the filth.' Nineteen-year-old Frank - thug, thief, son of a brothel owner - gets by surprisingly well desp ...Show more