Wicked But Virtuous: My Life

Mirka Mora

Few artists in Australia are held in such affectionate esteem as Mirka Mora. Even fewer have had such an amazing life. Narrowly avoiding Auschwitz during the Second World War, she and her husband Georges settled in Melbourne, where their landmark cafe-restaurants became a magnet for artists, writers and...

Portable Louisa May Alcott: Penguin Portable Library The

Louisa M. Alcott

Although the publication of Little Women in 1868 earned Louisa May Alcott tremendous popularity, for a long time she was thought of as a writer of children's stories and considered -- at best -- a minor figure in the American literary canon. Now, at the end of the twentieth century, Alcott's vast body o...