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Shallows by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
No.1 Australian Bestseller.Author Published Internationally. Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passinig defines the rythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begin ...Show more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This edition has a NEW introduction by PAULO COELHO. Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and mo ...Show more
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ...like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void' With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of the future. His effervescent last works, left unfinish ...Show more
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
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Category: Accessories | Series: Virago Modern Classics
'Strangers might remember a trip to see a girl hang, but who would spare a thought for the whos and hows and whys?' At thirteen, Mary, the daughter of a poor seamstress, longs for fine clothes as her neighbours hunger for food and warmth. For the love of a gorgeous red ribbon she finds herself seduced i ...Show more
Small G - a Summer Idyll by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Accessories | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Completed just months before Patricia Highsmith's death in 1995, Small g explores the labyrinthine intricacies of passion, sexuality, and jealousy in a charming tale of love misdirected. 'What is most remarkable in this novel is the empathy . . . with which Highsmith writes about gay men . . . one can ...Show more
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
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Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY MAVIS CHEEK'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' Anne TylerTogether yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Harriet, plump, elegant and jolly, likes noth ...Show more
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
"Anna Maxwell Martin (Bleak House) and David Morrissey lead an outstanding cast in this rich and panoramic portrait of a Yorkshire community in the Thirties that carries remarkable echoes of our own times. South Riding is a terrific love story, but it's also a raw and real portrait of a whole community ...Show more
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutio ...Show more
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger; Michael Hoffman (Translator)
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Category: Military | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics. 'As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters. They seemed to ...Show more
Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against personal demons and the modern world. In "Sweet Bird of Youth", a drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town with an ageing movie actress in search of the gir ...Show more
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that's just naturally bad.
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For bet ...Show more