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War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes. At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly e ...Show more
Waterloo : Little Black Classic by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 125
'Brave Frenchmen, will you not surrender?' Cambronne answered, 'Merde!' A tense, dramatic account of the Battle of Waterloo - and how a rain shower changed history - from Victor Hugo's epic novel Les Misérables. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the firs ...Show more
Watermark: an Essay on Venice by Joseph Brodsky
$28.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor". ("Wall Street Journal"). "Watermark" is Joseph Brodsky's witty, intelligent, moving and elegant portrait of Venice. Looking at every aspect of the city, from it ...Show more
Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
'Down with your plaid, Waverley,' cried Fergus, throwing off his own; 'we'll win silks for our tartans before the sun is above the sea.' The first romantic historical novel and international bestseller, "Waverley" (1814) tells the story of Edward Waverley, a naive, sensitive young man who is posted to S ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
We Belong to Gaia by James Lovelock
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Category: Magazines | Series: Penguin Non Fiction Classics
James Lovelock draws on decades of wisdom to lay out the history of our remarkable planet, to show that it is not ours to be exploited - and warns us that it is fighting back. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers a ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
Where Angels Fear To Tread by E M Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
When attractive, impulsive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior. Her prim, snobbish in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval, and when Lidia's decision eventually brings disaster, he ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. Two devastating Russian stories of solitude, unrequited love and depravity from beyond the grave. Film adaptations have been made by Italian ...Show more
Who Among Us? by Mario Benedetti
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
They met when they were teenagers. Quiet, poor, perhaps even a little dull, Miguel fell for languid Alicia during their long walks back from school. Then Lucas arrived and changed everything, entrancing Alicia with his confident bohemian charm. Miguel could not compete. But he stuck around and, against ...Show more
Why I Am so Clever : Little Black Classic by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 102
Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether? Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series ...Show more
Why Read The Classics? by Italo Calvino
$22.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Why Read the Classics?" is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say they are 'rereading', not 'reading'), this is an ...Show more