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Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$45.00 AUD
$48.00 (6% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
All four of Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary Sherlock Holmes novels, collected in a unique Graphic Deluxe edition with an introduction by Michael Dirda In 1886, an unsuccessful ophthalmologist on the southern coast of England decided to try his hand at writing a detective story. Unlike his historical rom ...Show more
Silas Marner by George Eliot, George Eliot
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Silas Marner, the story of an isolated man who learns to open his heart, was George Eliot's favourite of her novels, combining humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism."God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine- you've no right to her!"Wrongly acc ...Show more
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ...like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void' With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of the future. His effervescent last works, left unfinish ...Show more
South: The Endurance Expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning 28 men on the polar ice. Alone in ...Show more
Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
$24.95 AUD
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against personal demons and the modern world. In "Sweet Bird of Youth", a drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town with an ageing movie actress in search of the gir ...Show more
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that's just naturally bad.
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For bet ...Show more
Tell-Tale Heart: : Little Black Classic by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror ...the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.' Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height. Horrifying tales of mystery, sickening madnes ...Show more
The Absentee by María Edgeworth; Heidi Thomson (Introduction by, Notes by); Veire Heidi Van De (Illustrator)
$19.95 AUD
$24.95 (20% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Lord and Lady Clonbrony are more concerned with fashionable London society than with their responsibilities to those who live and work on their Irish estates. Concerned by this negligence, their son Lord Colambre goes incognito to Ireland to observe the situation and to discover the truth about the orig ...Show more
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
$29.95 AUD
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Saul Bellow's American masterpiece, "The Adventures of Augie March" includes an introduction by Christopher Hitchens in "Penguin Modern Classics". A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, i ...Show more
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Clothbound Classic HB) by Arthur Conan Doyle
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
A beautiful clothbound edition featuring some of the famous detective's most famous cases.Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile clot ...Show more
The Aeneid by Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Aeneid: Large Print By Virgil The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem ...Show more