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Charity by Len Deighton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The final novel featuring Bernard Samson, one of Deighton's most enduring characters, who must return to Berlin for one last caseBernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY.Bernard continues to chip away at the mystery of his sister-in-law Tess ...Show more
Child of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A terrific novel' Angela Carter Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with ...Show more
Childhood #1 Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen; Anon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties, and was followed by many more books, including her three brilliant volumes of memoir, Childhood (1967), Youth (1967) and Dependency (1971). She mar ...Show more
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, am ...Show more
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by custom and sorrow, without comfort or solace, where, eternally patient, the peasants lived in an age-old stillness and in the presence of death - for ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times 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 Fa ...Show more
Committed Writings by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. 'Letters to a German Friend' was Camus' first wartime intervention, written in 1943 in order 'to make our battle more effective'. 'Reflections on the Guill ...Show more
Complete Short Stories by Evelyn Waugh
$29.95 AUD
Category: Default | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this unique collection of short stories composed between 1910-62, Evelyn Waugh's early juvenilia are brought together with later pieces, some of which became the inspirations for his novels. "Mr Loveday's Little Outing" is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; "Cruise" s ...Show more
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester B. Himes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest' The New York Times A preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when thieves with machine guns steal the proceeds - and send one man's brain matter flyin ...Show more
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
$23.00 AUD
Category: Default | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the finest American authors of the 20th century, Wallace Stegner compiled an impressive collection of accolades during his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Book Award, and three O. Henry Awards. His final novel, Crossing to Safety is the quiet yet stirring tale of two ...Show more
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson's scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story "The Lottery" in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickl ...Show more
Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen; Anon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tove is only twenty, but she's already famous, a published poet and wife of a much older literary editor. Her path in life seems set, but she has no idea of the struggles that lie ahead - love affairs, an unwanted pregnancy, physical pain and crippling opioid addiction. As the years go by, the central t ...Show more