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Pilgermann by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Superb ... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple' Guardian It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it. Pilgermann is a me ...Show more
Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom. The Place of Dead Roads is the second novel in the trilogy with Cities of the Red Night and The Western La ...Show more
Plain Murder by C. S. Forester
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At the Universal Advertising Agency on the Strand, London, a murder is being planned. Three men have been discovered taking bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue, unless they can get rid of the person who caught them. Their ringleader, thick-set and vicious Mr Morris, soon discovers that k ...Show more
Poetics by Aristotle
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Poeticsby Aristotleely, Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Song. Two of the parts constitute the medium of imitation, one the manner, and three the objects of imitation. And these complete the list. These elements have been employed, we may say, by the poets to a man; in fact, every play cont ...Show more
Portable Dorothy Parker (Deluxe Edition) by Dorothy Parker
$54.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Classics S.
The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth centurys most quotable authors.
Power by Foucault, Michel
$26.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This book covers the topics Foucault helped make the core agenda of Western political culture - medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and sexuality - emphasising Foucault's practical concern with discrimination, coercion and exclusion in human society.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, ...Show more
Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Ambassador of France ' For his whole life, Romain Gary's fierce, eccentric motherhad only one aim: to make her son a great man. And she did. This, his thrilling, wildly romantic autobiography, is the story of his journey from poverty in Eastern ...Show more
Proust Clothbound Box by Marcel Proust; C. K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel, and C. K. Sco ...Show more
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw' ...Show more
Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson skewered the trials of domestic life in 1950s America with wry wit and uncanny precision. In this sequel to Life Among the Savages, her four offspring have now grown into fully-fledged demons. As their house starts to burst at the seams, the Jackson clan somehow manage (without really pl ...Show more
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Haruki Murakami (Foreword by, Introduction by); Jay Rubin (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of Penguin Classics' most popular translations--now also in our elegant black spine dress Ry nosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists--a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. "Rash mon"and "In a Bamboo Grove" ins ...Show more