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Kleinzeit by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'An original ... a delight to read' The Times On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in love with the divine, rosy-cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into a que ...Show more
Kusamakura by Sôseki Natsume; Natsume Sôseki; Meredith McKinney (Translator, Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A stunning new English translation--the first in more than forty years--of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura--meaning "grass pillow"--follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Constance Chatterley is not content. Trapped in a humdrum marriage to an impotent man, she becomes drawn to the earthy gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. They embark on a sexually-charged affair that allows them a sense of enlightenment and physical fulfilment. In Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence masterfu ...Show more
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
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Category: Music | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'." Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Bill ...Show more
Language, Truth and Logic by A.J. Ayer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct experience. Ayer rejected metaphysical claims about god, the absolute, and objective values as completel ...Show more
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. ...Show more
Leaves of Grass: (1855) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Walt Whitman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The publication of "Leaves of Grass" in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it - the unusual jacket and tit ...Show more
Letters 1941-1985 by Italo Calvino
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The extraordinary letters of Italo Calvino, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, translated into English for the first time by Martin McLaughlin, with an introduction by Michael Wood. Italo Calvino, Italy's most important postwar novelist, was also an influential literary critic, an import ...Show more
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
$32.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Like the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca's Letters are a treasure of practical wisdom on how to live and enjoy life. The focus is on living a simple, stress-free life thorough the use of rationalism. Seneca's timeless essays provide practical steps for people to deal with the human suffering that ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
$7.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a ...Show more
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes; C. B. MacPherson (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Throughout his long life Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) associated with some of the most celebrated thinkers of the age and witnessed some of its most dramatic events; it is therefore no wonder that his philosophy is regarded as among the most original and influential in Western philosophy. Motivated as much ...Show more
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery 'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children' As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chronicl ...Show more