Lady Susan by Jane Austen
$22.99 AUD
Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS
Introducing Little Clothbound Penguin Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Recently widowed, the unscrupulous and beautiful Lady Susan Vernon is determined to scheme her way t ...Show more
The Leopard: Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Vintage Classics
Lampedusa's masterpiece, one of the finest works of twentieth century fiction, is set amongst an aristocratic family facing social and political changes in the wake of Garibaldi's invasion of Sicily in 1860. At the head of the family is the prince, Don Fabrizio. Proud and stubborn, he is accustomed to k ...Show more
The Trial: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Trial (Der Process in German) 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 his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavi ...Show more
The Theban Plays (King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) by Sophocles
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles' three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement. Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles: Popular Penguins by Alan Marshall
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood--a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides, and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders, bushmen, farmers, and tellers of tall stories--a worl ...Show more
The Amazing Spider-Man - Penguin Classics Marvel Collection by Stan Lee, Steve Ditko
$44.99 AUD
Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Classics Marvel Collection
The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition Collects "Spider-Man!" from Amazing Fantasy #15 ( ...Show more
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS
Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he i ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
$19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more
Matrix by Lauren Groff
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Reading Level: good
A remarkable historical novel by the bestselling author of Fates and Furies. Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns ...Show more
Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor Dostoevsky
$16.99 AUD
Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS
First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcil-able relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only foreshadows t ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles: Popular Penguins by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins
"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body - this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the ...Show more
The Jungle Book: Popular Penguins by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades, Mowgli encounters such unforgettable creatures as Bagheera, the graceful black panther, and Shere Khan, the tiger with th ...Show more