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The Harp in the South Trilogy by Ruth Park
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Ruth Park . . . that steady glow at the heart of Australian literature.' Ruth CracknellThree of Ruth Park's best loved books - Missus, The Harp in the Southand Poor Man's Orange- are brought together in this volume, tracing the saga of the Darcy family over thirty years. The story has its beginnings in ...Show more
The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix Tie-In) by Shirley Jackson
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror ...Show more
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A classic of fantastic literature, Leonora Carrington's "The Hearing Trumpet" is the occult twin to "Alice in Wonderland", published with an introduction by Ali Smith in Penguin Modern Classics. One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing tr ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more
The Jungle Play by Rudyard Kipling
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$24.95 (32% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Jungle Play" was discovered among Kipling's papers at the University of Sussex Library. Based on the original stories of "The Jungle Books", the play escaped the destruction that befell almost all of Kipling's other unpublished works.
The King's English by Kingsley Amis
$24.95 AUD
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The King's English" is Kingsley Amis' authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the English language. A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, Amis provides indispensable advice about the linguistic blunders and barbarities that lie in wait for us, from danglers, four- ...Show more
The Little Drummer Girl: Now a BBC series by John le Carré
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A special edition of John le Carré's thrilling novel of espionage and betrayal in the Middle East, to tie in with the forthcoming BBC series starring Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Shannon and Florence Pugh Charlie, a jobbing young English actress, is accustomed to playing different roles. But when the m ...Show more
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An official tie-in edition of Philip K Dick's dazzling speculative novel to accompany the new TV series, executive produced by Ridley Scott. Philip K Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War. In this nightmare ...Show more
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
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$26.00 (23% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.
The Mountains of My Life by Walter Bonatti
$26.95 AUD
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Mountains of My Life" collects Walter Bonatti's classic writings detailing his exploits on numerous expeditions to different mountains of the world, as well as the real story behind the controversy over the events on K2 that changed his life. Bonatti is one of the greatest mountaineers of all time, ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in "Penguin Classics". In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: is ...Show more
The Night Manager by John le Carré
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A classic spy novel from master of suspense John le Carre--reissued in time with the BBC and AMC miniseries, directed by Susanne Bier and starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. On a bleak January night at the outbreak of the Gulf War, Mr. Richard Onslow Roper, a very special visitor, arrives with hi ...Show more