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The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Fifty years since first publication, E. P. Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael Kenny. This classic and imaginative account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, ...Show more
The Master of Ballantrae by Adrian Poole
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English crown, to inherit the title of Lord Durrisdee ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else." The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That ...Show more
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guervara
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An iconic bestseller- Che Guevara's account of his youthful adventures travelling around South America on his motorcycleAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native Argentina to explore their continent, with only a single 1939 Norton motorcyc ...Show more
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle Hailed by Dante as "the master of those who know," the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) surveyed every field of learning known to the ancient world and pioneered the sciences of psychology and logic. A disciple of Plato and the tutor to Alexander the Great, Aristot ...Show more
The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories by Henry Lawson
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Category: Australia | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson has become part of the Australian national psyche, and his short stories and verse have come to affect how Australian's view their country.Yet at his best Lawson transcends even the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub ...Show more
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"The Portable Poe" compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum,""The Fall of the House of Usher,""The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this v ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Utterly unique and beloved around the world, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic essays by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. Telling the story of the prophet Al-Mustafa and his conversations with various acquaintances as he returns home after a long absence, the boo ...Show more
The Prose Edda by Jesse L. Byock, Jesse L Byock
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves ...Show more
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version Of The Indian Epic by R. K. Narayan
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling. 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, 'is aware of the story of The Ramayana. Everyone of whatever age, out ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
The Shooting Party by A.P. Chekhov
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Anton Chekhov's only full-length novel, this "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Shooting Party" is translated and edited by Ronald Wilks, with an introduction by John Sutherland. "The Shooting Party" centres on Olga, the pretty young daughter of a drunken forester on a country estate, and her fateful re ...Show more