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The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
The incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri.'The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy Tan'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's ...Show more
The Perfect Storm - A True Story of Man Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape.The 'perfect storm' is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds ov ...Show more
The Persian Boy - A Novel of Alexander the Great: a Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault; Tom Holland (Introduction by); Seán Hewitt (Introduction by)
$45.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest historical novels ever written'SARAH WATERS'I love to find queer representation in historical fiction. . . Renault's eye for intimacy is amazing'DOUGLAS STUART'Fierce, complex and eloquent'MADELINE MILLER'Mary Renault is a shining light'HILARY MANTEL***A groundbreaking queer classic ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
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Category: No Category | 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 Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History by Angela Carter
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Category: Gender | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'The tone is one of intellectual relish ... rational ... refined ... witty' NEW STATESMAN'Her work is funny, sexy, frightening and brutal' EDMUND GORDON, GUARDIAN 'Angela Carter liked to blur boundaries and break rules' GABY WOOD, INDEPENDENT'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosophe ...Show more
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
All that deep-rooted vitality flowered in her voice, her face, in her very finger-tips. She felt like a tree bursting into bloom'Thea Kronberg, a young girl from the small desert town of Moonstone, Colorado, has a great gift - her beautiful singing voice. This talent will take her all the way to the gre ...Show more
The Story of the Amulet (Psammead #3) by Edith Nesbit
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Psammead Series, Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: Adult
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the sc ...Show more
The Total Library: Non-fiction, 1922-1986 by Jorge Luis Borges
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. This title features more than 150 of Borges' pieces.
The Trial by Franz Kafka
$16.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Trial (original German title: Der Process,later Der Prozess, Der Proceß and Der Prozeß) is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of ...Show more
The Trials of Rumpole by John Mortimer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive James Horace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steak-and-kidney pud and the cooking claret from Pommeroy's wine bar, is back for further misadventures. Amid an unfortunate and temporary downturn in L ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in "Penguin Modern Classics". More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, "The Waves" conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group ...Show more