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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A collection of stories on morality, this volume includes: "The Raid", "Woodfelling", "Three Deaths", "Polikushka", "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", "After the Ball", and "The Forged Coupon".
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
$22.95 AUD
Category: Paperback Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith. It originated as an intermittent serial in Punch magazine in 1888-89 and first appeared in book form, with extended text in 1892. The Diary records the daily events in the lives of a London clerk, Charle ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; Susan Massotty (Translator); Elie Wiesel; Otto Frank (Editor); Mirjam Pressler (Editor)
$16.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the de ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank, Anne Frank
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic--a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her f ...Show more
The Door with Seven Locks (Popular Penguins Crime) by Edgar Wallace
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Detective Dick Martin is leaving Scotland Yard. His final job is to bring in Lew Pheeney, wanted in connection with a bank robbery. When Lew confesses to trying to open a dead man's tomb, however, Martin has a mystery he must unravel. He races to find the connection between an attractive young librarian ...Show more
The Ellis Laws: Penguin Special by Bob Ellis (Director)
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Category: Paperback Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials
In these witty, outrageous ten laws, beloved polymath Bob Ellis investigates dislocation and security, youth and old age, competence and charisma. He explains why, among other things: power flows to the most boring man in the room, people are forgiven for almost anything if they are tall enough
The Epic of Gilgamesh by N K Sandars
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
?I am Gilgamesh who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven, I killed the watchman of the cedar forest, I overthrew Humbaba who lived in the forest? English version with an introduction by N. K. Sandars Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient ...Show more
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Following the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive diamond necklace. She maintains it was a gift from her husband, but the Eustace lawyers insist she give it up, and while her cousin Frank takes her side, her new lover Lord F ...Show more
The Fall by Albert Camus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powe ...Show more
The Getting of Wisdom - Penguin Australian Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
When Laura Rambotham arrives at an exclusive Melbourne girls school from her country home, she is ridiculed by the other pupils for her differences - her name, her unusual clothes and, especially, for her 'unpardonable sin': her exceptional musical ability. Laura endures ostracism and misery as she trie ...Show more