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Little Wolf's Book of Badness by Ian Whybrow
$12.99 AUD
$16.99 (23% off)
Category: Young Readers | Series: First Modern Classics
A new edition of the first novel about Little Wolf as he is sent to Uncle Bigbad's Cunning College to learn the nine rules of badness. Now published into the First Modern Classics list, fantastic stories for young readers. All Little Wolf wants to do is stay at home with Mum and Dad and Baby brother Sm ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his "Lolita" both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy.
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave. City cop Andy Rusch is under pressure to solve the crime and captivated by the victim's beautiful girlfriend. But it is difficult to catch a killer, let alone get the girl, in crazy streets crammed full of people. The planet's population ha ...Show more
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus's insights and advice - on everything from living in the world to ...Show more
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
$32.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an in ...Show more
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade which seriously blots his Halberdier c ...Show more
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation ...Show more
Miss Peabody's Inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley
$19.95 AUD
$26.00 (23% off)
Category: Accessories | Series: UQP Modern Classics
In this potent tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne is a brilliant, witty and accomplished woman. The exotic tale of this flamboyant eccentric and her European travels - with jealous secretary and shy schoolgirl pr ...Show more
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
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Category: Teenage | Series: Usborne Modern Classics Ser.
In Caitlin's world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That's the stuff Caitlin's older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon's dead and Dad is no help at all. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl with Asperger's, ...Show more
Morrissey - Autobiography by Morrissey
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades. Achieving eleven Top 10 albums (p ...Show more
Mrs Bridge by Evan S. Connell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Evan S. Connell's "Mrs Bridge" is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century, influencing books such as Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections". This edition has an introduction by Joshua Ferris, author of "Then We Came to the End" ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Elegantly interweaving her characters' complex inner lives in an unbroken stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway" continues to enthral readers with its exploration of the human experience; of time, space, madness and regret. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited by Stella McNichol w ...Show more