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Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Fifteen-year-old Angelica Deverell knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted author. Escaping the dreariness of her provincial life, she locks herself in her room, pouring all her romantic longings on to the page. After reading The Lady Irania, the publishers are certain it will be ...Show more
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The novel tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks nonetheless on a search to rediscover his grandmother, no long dead ...Show more
Animal Farm: The Illustrated Edition by George Orwell
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
2015 is the 70th anniversary of Animal Farm. To commemorate this important anniversary, Penguin Classics is republishing the classic illustrated Animal Farm by Joy Batchelor and John Halas. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they ...Show more
Answered Prayers by Truman Capote
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
P B Jones discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way that prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remain ignored.
Anthem by Ayn Rand
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Equality 7-2521 is a man apart. Since the Great Rebirth it has been a crime in his world to think or act as an individual. Even love is forbidden. Yet, since his childhood in the Home of the Infants, Equality 7-2521 has felt that he is different. When he is sent by the Council of Vocations to work as a ...Show more
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep's wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world' Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring an ...Show more
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"This is just the book to give your sister - if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." - Dylan Thomas. Flann O'Brien's first novel tells the story of a young, indolent undergraduate, who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin and spends far too much time drinking with his friends. When not drunk or in b ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies d ...Show more
Averno by Louise Gluck
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother's possessive grief, an abdu ...Show more
BEND SINISTER by NABOKOV VLADIMIR
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist, ...Show more
Babette's Feast and Other Stories by Isak Dinesen
$27.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, 'Babette's Feast', which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her employers to the decadent feast ...Show more
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A young woman anxiously waits for her date on a street corner in New York City; he sits in a pizza parlour across the street, watching her discomfort. A middle-aged woman returns to a New York that is haunted by the passion and intensity of her former relationship with her estranged best friend. A secre ...Show more