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Aaron's Rod by Steven (INT) Mara (EDT); Vine D. H.; Kalnins Lawrence
$36.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Based on the only authoritative surviving manuscript of the 1921 novel, this Cambridge edition restores many passages censored from previous editions in its depiction of Everyman's quest for a meaningful existence. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin twentieth century classics
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945, this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.
Howards End by David (INT) E. M.; Lodge Forster
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics,
In "Howard's End", E.M. Forster unveils the English character as never before, exploring the underlying class warfare involving three distinct groups - a wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man living on the edge of poverty. The sou ...Show more
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
"Mysteries"(1892) is the story of Johan Nilsen Nagel, a mysterious stranger who suddenly turns up in a small Norwegian town one summer-and just as suddenly disappears. Nagel is a complete outsider, a sort of modern Christ treated in a spirit of near parody. He condemns the politics and thought of the ag ...Show more
Night (Modern Classics) by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War.
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by S. T. (EDT) H. P.; Joshi Lovecraft
$34.95 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
"The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories" collects some of Jack London's most profound and moving allegorical tales. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited by Andrew Sinclair with an introduction by James Dickey. "The Call of the Wild", London's masterpiece about a dog learning to survive ...Show more
The Long Valley by John H. Timmerman
$18.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to ...Show more
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. by Rainer Maria Rilke
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic f ...Show more
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