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Absolute Friends by John le Carré
19.99 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
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is edited with a critical introduction by Peter Coveney. Mark Twain's story of a boy's journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed th ...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
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
Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A dazzling intellectual performance' VogueAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equa ...Show more
Against Nature (A Rebours) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's "Dorian Gray", Joris-Karl Huysmans' "Against Nature" (A Rebours) is translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness in "Penguin Classics". A wildly original fin-de-siecle novel, "Against Nature" contain ...Show more
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally i ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Penguin Bedtime Classics) by Lewis Carroll; Carly Gledhill (Illustrator); Tony Ross (Illustrator)
12.99 AUD
Category: Board Books | Series: Penguin Bedtime Classics Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is fill ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll; Charlie Lovett (Introduction by); John Tenniel (Illustrator)
29.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Lewis Carroll's brilliantly timeless tales--in a deluxe 150th-anniversary edition Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There have enchanted readers for generations. The topsy-turvy ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There have enchanted readers for generations. The topsy-turvy dr ...Show more
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest European prose writers' - Philip Roth. In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal (author of Closely Observed Trains) bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing, unruly community of cats. This is his confessional, ten ...Show more