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Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling; John Seelye (Introduction by)
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Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This wonderful classic combines three unbeatable elements: a sea story, lively and dynamic characters, and a protagonist who undergoes a transformation. Harvey Cheyne is the pampered son of a multimillionaire who falls off an ocean liner and is rescued by a small fishing boat. After being punched in th ...Show more
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'We are the music makers ...we are the dreamers of dreams'. This new edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory celebrates fifty years of the bestselling and beloved classic. The story of Charlie Bucket, a mysterious, eccentric chocolate factory owner and the golden ticket that transforms his existenc ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damn ...Show more
Cranford (Clothbound Classic) by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Cranford By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Cranford is a witty portrait of small town life in early-Victorian England. The story unfolds through the eyes of Mary Smith, a young woman who observes the comedic struggles of two middle aged sisters in their efforts to maintain a level of refined dignity amid po ...Show more
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Nikolay Gogol
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nikolai Gogol's 'epic poem in prose', "Dead Souls" is a damning indictment of a corrupt society, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Robert A. Maguire in "Penguin Classics". Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landow ...Show more
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Hardy described "Desperate Remedies" as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determine ...Show more
Don Quixote (penguin classics) by Miguel Cervantes
$45.00 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, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England- an apparently unmanned shipis wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman disco ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck creat ...Show more
Ecclesiastical History of the English People - With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthbert's Letter on the Death of Bede by Venerable St Bede; Leo Sherley-Price (Translator); D. H. Farmer (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during the crucial formative years of the English people. Leo Sherley-Price's tran ...Show more
Essays by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.