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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His jo ...Show more
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce's life. The Penguin Modern Classics edition of includes an introduction by Seamus Deane'riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from ...Show more
Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The classic and gripping spy novel of Cold War Berlin' Guardian 1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defection - in an elaborate mock coffin - of a leading Soviet scientist. But, as he soon discovers, this deception hides an even de ...Show more
Giovanni's Room (Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky by F.M. Dostoevsky
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Accompanied by notes and commentary, a collection of short works by the celebrated author of Crime and Punishment includes such classics as White Nights, Notes from the Underground, The Eternal Husband, The Gambler, and The Double, among others. Reissue.
Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai. Manjing is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shujun, the son of wealthy merchants. Despite family complications, they fall in ...Show more
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel' Nigella Lawson Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another wo ...Show more
History Of The Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
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Category: New Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book presents, from the pers ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he ...Show more
Honour and Other People's Children by Helen Garner
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Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
In Honour & Other People's Children, Helen Garner examines the idiosyncratic and bothersome notions of honour by which her characters - adults and children - shape their untidy lives. Honour is about a couple whose marriage, though abandoned in practice, persists in spirit. But the arrival of a new ...Show more
Horse Under Water (#2 IPCRESS) by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The unnamed spy of The IPCRESS File uncovers a secret buried deep in a Nazi U-Boat A sunken U-Boat has lain undisturbed on the Atlantic ocean floor since the Second World War - until now. Inside its rusting hull, among the corpses of top-rank Nazis, lie secrets people will kill to obtain. The sequel to ...Show more
Hour Of The Star by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macab a, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macab a loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monro ...Show more