The Periodic Table: Popular Penguins by Primo Levi
$14.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of ...Show more
Chantic Bird:Text Classics by David Ireland; George Williamson
$12.95 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
I'm only telling you this to let you know what a silly thing it is to live like I do. What it was, I got sacked from my seventeenth job for fighting or gambling - I don't know which - and because I was hardly ever there. I was gambling all right, but someone called me a cheat and swung at me, I moved my ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love: Popular Penguins by Anais Nin
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Category: classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A Spy in the House of Love, whose heroine Sabina is deeply divided between her drive for artistic and sexual expression and social restrictions and self-created inhibitions, echoes Anais Nin's personal struggle with sex, love, and emotional fragmentation.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: Popular Penguins by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: classics | Series: Popular Penguins
This brutal glimpse of Russia under Stalin shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibilities of a nail, a piece of string or a single match in a time where survival is all. Enter a ...Show more
Shakespeare: A Midsummer Nights Dream/Winters Tale/12th Night by Harley Granville-Barker
$8.00 AUD
Category: classics
Unrivalled practical insights from one of the most influential actors and directors of Shakespeare of all time. This volume contains the original 1914 Preface to A Midsummer Night's Dream; an extended 1924 Preface to the same play; and the 1912 Prefaces to The Winter's Tale and Twelfth Night. 'I rega ...Show more
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the mater ...Show more
The Great Comedies and Tragedies by William Shakespeare
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth World Literature S.
The Comedies with Introductions by Judith Buchanan. These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably, into general goodwill and a spate of m ...Show more
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
$40.00 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful and tactile cloth. Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inf ...Show more
Jules Verne's Mikhail Strogoff by Jules Verne, Stephanie Smee (translator)
$55.00 AUD
Category: classics
Russia, late 19th century. The Empire is in great peril, and only one man can save it: the bold and resourceful young messenger Mikhail Strogoff. In a desperate race against time, he must face great dangers if he is to deliver his warning, as foreign armies mass on the border and a traitor lurks ready t ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
$35.00 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dr ...Show more