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Matilda (Modern Classics) by Roald Dahl
$19.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
Matilda's parents have called her some terrible things. The truth is, she's a genius and they're the stupid ones. Matilda is determined to get her own back and soon discovers she has a very special power.A classic from the most popular children's writer.
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an in ...Show more
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade which seriously blots his Halberdier c ...Show more
Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Inner-suburban Melbourne in the 1970s- a world of communal living, drugs, music and love. In this acclaimed first novel, Helen Garner captures the fluid relationships of a community of friends who are living and loving in new ways. Nora falls in love with Javo the junkie, and together they try to make s ...Show more
Morrissey - Autobiography by Morrissey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades. Achieving eleven Top 10 albums (p ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; Elaine Showalter (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that ...Show more
My Life by Marc Chagall
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Category: Art/Decorative arts/Graphics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Chagall was the son of a herring merchant, born in Witebsk in White Russia, opposite a laundress and a chimney sweep. After the Revolution, while waiting for emigration papers, he wrote his autobiography at the age of 34. My Life reads like one of Chagall's paintings- emotional, fragmentary, humorous, ...Show more
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs, William S Burroughs
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast ...Show more
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'One of his masterpieces ...without doubt a great novel' Guardian One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled in the extremes ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-four (Popular Penguin - Redacted Cover Edition) by George Orwell
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101. 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'. Hidden away in the Record Depa ...Show more
Nova Express - The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The most ferociously political and prophetic book of the Cut-Up Trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As with The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, William Burroughs dep ...Show more
Number the Stars: Collins Modern Classics by Lois Lowry
$12.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Essential Modern Classics Ser.
In Nazi-occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best friend from a terrible fate. Winner of the Newbery Medal, newly reissued in the Essential Modern Classics range. "They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews. They plan to take them a ...Show more