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Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age be ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Secon ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday- Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed i ...Show more
Chernobyl Prayer - Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'A beautifully written book, it's been years since I had to look away from a page because it was just too heart-breaking to go on' - Arundhati Roy, Elle'One of the most humane and terrifying books I've ever read' - Helen Simpson, Observer The devastating history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Ale ...Show more
Chess: A Novel by Stefan Zweig
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At f ...Show more
Child of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A terrific novel' Angela Carter Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with ...Show more
Childhood #1 Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen; Anon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties, and was followed by many more books, including her three brilliant volumes of memoir, Childhood (1967), Youth (1967) and Dependency (1971). She mar ...Show more
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, am ...Show more
Civilization & Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
$22.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual.
Cold Comfort Farm
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Fa ...Show more
Collection of Sand by Italo Calvino
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Italo Calvino in Collection of Sand claimed that 'the brain begins in the eye'. The essays collected here display his fascination with the visual universe, in which the things we see tell a truth about the world. With encyclopedic knowledge and engaging curiosity, Calvino writes about such diverse subje ...Show more
Committed Writings by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. 'Letters to a German Friend' was Camus' first wartime intervention, written in 1943 in order 'to make our battle more effective'. 'Reflections on the Guill ...Show more