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Penguin Book Of The British Short Story: Volume II: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith by Philip Hensher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
She would tear the house down - shatter the windows, slash the furniture, flood the baths, fire the curtains!' Hilarious, exuberant, surreal, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular and above all unexpected- this extraordinary selection celebrates the British short story from the 1920s to the present day. F ...Show more
Penguin's Poems for Life by Laura Barber
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the "seven ages" of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a livin ...Show more
Pensees by Blaise Pascal
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. "The Pensees" is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explo ...Show more
Pereira Maintains: A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Dr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer whose anti-fascist fervor is as strong as Pereira's apolitical languor. Eventually, breaking out of the shell of ...Show more
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S.Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Faced with cancer and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future. In doing so, he won himself a unique place in American letters. Acclaimed by writers as diverse as Mark Twain and Gertrude Stein, Grant' ...Show more
Personal Writings - Albert Camus by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most personal and lyrical writing, as he reflects on his identity and childhood in Algeria and celebrates the beauty of the Mediterranean. The Wrong Side and the Right Side, Camus's first book and most openly autobiographical work, describes his early years in a work ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Her last completed novel, marrying witty social realism to a 'Cinderella' love story, Jane Austen's "Persuasion" is edited with an introduction by Gillian Beer in "Penguin Classics". Anne Elliot, twenty-seven and still single, seems destined for spinsterhood. In her youth, she broke off an engagement to ...Show more
Persuasion (Clothbound Classic) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Sir Walter Elliot, de Kellynch-Hall, dans le comté de Somerset, n'avait jamais touché un livre pour son propre amusement, si ce n'est le livre héraldique. Là il trouvait de l'occupation dans les heures de désoeuvre- ment, et de la consolation dans les heures de chagrin. Devant ces vieux parchemins, il é ...Show more
Phineas Finn, The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The second of Trollope's Palliser novels tells of the career of a hot-blooded middle-class politician whose sexual energies bring him much success with women.
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In the fourth of the 'Palliser' stories, Trollope follows Phineas Finn's return to the dangerous world of Westminster politics. When his political rival is murdered, Phineas is thrown under suspicion and eventually finds himself standing trial at the Old Bailey. The situation is complicated by the prese ...Show more
Pic by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It's 1948, and when ten-year-old Pictorial Review Jackson's guardian dies, his older brother Slim appears. Together, the two hitch and bum from North Carolina to New York City, observing the strange lifestyles of people they encounter.