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The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories by Henry Lawson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson has become part of the Australian national psyche, and his short stories and verse have come to affect how Australian's view their country.Yet at his best Lawson transcends even the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears th ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"The Portable Poe" compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum,""The Fall of the House of Usher,""The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this v ...Show more
The Prose Edda by Jesse L. Byock, Jesse L Byock
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves ...Show more
The Rule of St Benedict by St Benedict of Nursia; Carolinne White (Translated by)
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Category: Religion | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino, between Rome and Naples, in the sixth century, St Benedict intended his Rule to be a practical guide to Christian monastic life. Based on the key precepts of humility, obedience and love, its aim is to create a harmonious and efficient religious community in whic ...Show more
The Sagas of the Icelanders by Jane Smilely, Jane Smilely
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A collection of stories, which depicts the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America.
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
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Category: Accessories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
All that deep-rooted vitality flowered in her voice, her face, in her very finger-tips. She felt like a tree bursting into bloom'Thea Kronberg, a young girl from the small desert town of Moonstone, Colorado, has a great gift - her beautiful singing voice. This talent will take her all the way to the gre ...Show more
The Sonnets and a Lover's complaint (Clothbound Classic) by William Shakespeare; John Kerrigan (Editor, Introduction by); Coralie Bickford-smith (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
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 and tactile cloth. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written m ...Show more
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Illuminating essays on philsophy, literature, soceity, and art by one of Ireland's greatest wits Oscar Wilde--witty raconteur, flamboyant hedonist, and self-destructive lover--is most familiar as the author of brilliant comedies, including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, and the dec ...Show more
The Spider's House by Paul Bowles
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Fez, 1954, and American ex-pat Stenham reluctantly accepts a guide for his night-time walk home through the streets of the Medina. A nationalist uprising is transforming the country, much to the annoyance of Stenham, who enjoys the trappings of the old city. His path soon crosses with the young, illiter ...Show more
The Star-Child by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, f ...Show more