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A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
For a book that sent shock waves through the European literary establishment and, since its original publication in 1906 has gone through seven editions along with highly cclaimed translations into all th principal languages of Europe, A Woman (Una Donna) by Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960) has remained curi ...Show more
A Wreath Of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private absorptions - Frances with her painting and Liz with her baby - seem to exclude her from the gossipy intimacies of previous summers. Anxious that she will remain encased in her solitary life as a school secret ...Show more
A Wrinkle in Time (Puffin Modern Classic) by Madeleine L'Engle
12.95 AUD
Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: From 2 To 12
When Charles Wallace Murry goes searching through a 'wrinkle in time' for his lost father, he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge pulsating brain known as 'It'. How Charles, his sister Meg and friend Calvin find and free his father makes this a very special and exciting ...Show more
Absolute Friends by John le Carré
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947 in a newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West.The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties an ...Show more
Absolute Zero (The Bagthorpe Saga #2) by Helen Cresswell
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Collins Modern Classics
The second book in the super-funny classic series The Bagthorpe Saga, starring the TOTALLY unforgettable Bagthorpe family - from best-loved author Helen Cresswell. Bad, mad and brilliant to know - the Bagthorpes are back! Something even stranger than normal is happening in the Bagsthorpe house. Ever sin ...Show more
Ada Or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, this is Nabokov's 'other' great love story; with some of Lolita's perversity and much more playfulness. Romance follows Ada and Van from their first childhood meeting through eight years of rapture, in a book which is regarded by many to be Nabokov's r ...Show more
Advertisements for Myself PMC by Norman Mailer
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty, belligerent and vigorous writer, this manifesto of ...Show more
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
26.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Aesthetics offers a focused study on the philosophy, literature and art which have informed Foucault's particular engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Roussel and Boulez.
Africa's Tarnished Name (Mini Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
2.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Mini Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others. Electrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature.
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides to leave France and return to London. Past her prime, exhausted by broken love affairs and addled by drink, Julia is tragically unable to find what she rea ...Show more
After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. And now life seems more complicated every day. Her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have b ...Show more
After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvia Townsend Warner
9.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'She has a talent amounting to genius' John Updike Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Doña Ana, the woman he tried to seduce, will stop at nothing to discover the truth. Set in a rural eighteenth-century Spain ...Show more