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The Arabian Nights by Richard F. Burton (Translator); A. S. Byatt (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad alway ...Show more
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. Henry Skrimshander, newly arrived at college, shy and out of his depth, has a talent for ba ...Show more
The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever ...Show more
The Bay Of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place. Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama waits her there. She has an introduction to a Neapolitan woman, and one ...Show more
The Beautiful And Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and the Damned" includes an introduction by Geoff Dyer in "Penguin Modern Classics". Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age gl ...Show more
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
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Category: Mind , Body & Spirit | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and ...Show more
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector's third novel--the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals--is in English at last. Lucr cia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors--soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus--are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, whic ...Show more
The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats by Allen Ginsberg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lecturesIn 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl', Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Ge ...Show more
The Castle by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he fi ...Show more
The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Chandelier, written when Lispector was only twenty-three, reveals a very different author from the college student whose debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, announced the landfall of "Hurricane Clarice."Virginia and her cruel, beautiful brother, Daniel, grow up in a decaying country mansion. They l ...Show more
The Child, the Family, and the Outside World by D. W. Winnicott
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Category: Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest British psychoanalyst who ever lived. He writes beautifully and simply about the problems of everyday life' Alain de BottonThe paediatrician and child psychiatrist D. W. Winnicott changed the way we think about childhood by placing the parent-infant relationship at the heart of human happi ...Show more
The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Classics
Re-release of John Le Carré's most surprising book. Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has disappeared.Her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur g ...Show more