Browse by category
Search Sweet Country by Kojo Laing
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Winner of the Valco Fund Literary Award for Fiction and the Ghana Book Award.Bringing the city to life in dizzying, lyrical prose, Laing weaves a story filled with bizarre and often melancholy characters- an idealistic professor, a lovely young witch, a wide-eyed student, a corrupt politician and his ha ...Show more
Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In Tokyo, in the middle of the night, an uncalled-for ambulance arrives to spirit away a man's wife, though she is perfectly healthy. He sets out on an epic journey to find her, around the labyrinthine corners of a strange and enormous hospital. Days into his search, having encountered countless strange ...Show more
Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings by George Orwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The best of Orwell's journalism, published in one volume for the first time, selected by leading expert Peter Davison. Celebrated for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one of our very best journalists and commentators. Confronting social, political and moral dilemmas head-on, he was fearless in his ...Show more
Selected Fables by Jean de La Fontaine
$6.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95) freely plundered the works of Aesop, Phaedrus, Bidpai and others to transform the world's great fables into charming poems of astonishing originality, wit and verve. Here he depicts lions, frogs, donkeys, rats, insects, birds and wily foxes in situations that reveal the qui ...Show more
Selected Poems by William Wordsworth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of the most enduringly popular of Romantic poets, William Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and belief in the importance of feeling. This volume brings together a rich selection from the most creative period of Wordsworth's life - from 'Tintern Abb ...Show more
Selected Poems by Robert Browning
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language, ...Show more
Selected Poems by Byron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his lite ...Show more
Selected Poems: Donne by John Donne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preach ...Show more
Selected Poems: Keats by John Keats
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should 'be among the English po ...Show more
Selected Poems: Milton by John Milton; John Leonard (Introduction by); Christopher Ricks (Editor)
$17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
An authoritative new edition of Milton's essential verse John Milton, who abandoned early plans of becoming a clergyman to become a poet, was a master of almost every type of verse-from the classical to the religious, from the lyric to the epic. His writing reflected his radical views and his profou ...Show more
Selected Poems - Rumi by Rumi
$17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational verse speaks with the universal voice of the human soul and brims with exuberant energy and passion. Rich in natural imagery from ho ...Show more
Selected Poems: Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'Into the jaw of Death Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred' As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age. The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years of his literary careerand show the wide variety of poetic ...Show more