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Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age be ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945 this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.
Chess: A Novel by Stefan Zweig
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At f ...Show more
Children Are Civilians Too by Heinrich Böll
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Decline And Fall (TV Tie in) by Evelyn Waugh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A tie-in edition of Waugh's first and funniest novel to accompany the new BBC adaptation starring Jack Whitehall. Sent down from Oxford University for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of Her Majesty's priso ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
$10.00 AUD
$22.99 (56% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them'. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrele ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich fa ...Show more
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Jorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art form--in his case, the short story. His work has been paid the ultimate honor of being appropriated and imitated by innumerable writers on every continent of the world. The seventeen brief masterpieces of FICCIONES expl ...Show more
Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories by Elizabeth Jolley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
During her lifetime, Elizabeth Jolley established a formidable international reputation for her unique combination of unsentimental realism and original humour. Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories brings together two highly acclaimed collections of Jolley's short fiction in a new edition. Five Acre Virgi ...Show more
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.' Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide ...Show more
Green Armour by Osmar White
$20.00 AUD
$24.95 (19% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Journalist Osmar White's gripping story of the Australian and American forces' struggle against the Japanese invasion of New Guinea in 1942-43 is stark, vivid, chilling.
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
$19.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west ...the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing.' Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely contained violence; the Hell's Angels could paralyse ...Show more