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The Drinking Den by Emile Zola
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set in the taverns of Paris, this is perhaps the first classical tragedy of working-class people living in the slums of a city. The Drinking Den(1877) is part of the Rougon-Macquart series, a naturalistic history of two branches of a family traced through several generations. Zola's work was influenced ...Show more
The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories. Here, their eloquent and ironic voices depict the lavish, corrupt world they had known - from the r ...Show more
The Empty Space by Peter Brook
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Category: Film & Performing Arts | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In "The Empty Space", groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing any theatrical performance. Here he describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as smaller scale events, from productions by Stanislavsky to the ri ...Show more
The Epic of Gilgamesh by N K Sandars, N. K. Sandars
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literatureMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells ...Show more
The Essays, A selection by Michel Montaigne
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and cannibals, and, above all, himself. "On ...Show more
The Essential Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem "Howl," this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg's poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs. One of the Beat Generation's most renowned poets and writers, Allen Gi ...Show more
The Europeans by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Following the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive diamond necklace. She maintains it was a gift from her husband, but the Eustace lawyers insist she give it up, and while her cousin Frank takes her side, her new lover Lord F ...Show more
The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and taunting voices. Convinced that her housekeeper and husband are plotting against her, she descends into a terrifying world of sickness, pills and institutionalization. ...Show more
The Fall by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe; David Galloway (Editor, Foreword by); Tatiana Rapatzikou (Contribution by)
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. "The Fall of the House of Usher" describes the final hours of a family tormented ...Show more
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Landmark, groundbreaking, classic -- these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and ...Show more