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Cause For Alarm by Eric Ambler
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim. So when his fiancee points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in Italy, he jumps at the chance. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth about his pr ...Show more
Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories by Giovanni Verga; G. H. McWilliam (Introduction by, Translator); Giovanni Verga
$26.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A new translation of the stories of Giovanni Verga, the greatest Italian short-story writer since Boccaccio. Verga's rich naturalism and orginality of style have posed formidable problems for those translators who have dared attempt him. Born into a well-to-do Sicilian family, in the 1870s and 1880s Ver ...Show more
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tayo, a young World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns home to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. Deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese, and further wounded by the rejection and alienation that he feels amongst his own people, he faces a fierce struggle to find inner peace. O ...Show more
Charity by Len Deighton
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
Chattering courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches by LUCIAN
$9.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Described by a later Greek historian as "a man seriously committed to raising a laugh", Lucian exulted in the exposure of absurdity and the puncturing of pretension, and was capable of finding a comic angle on almost any subject. In this selection we see him conversing with his literary enemies, railing ...Show more
Chekhov : A Life in Letters by A.P. Chekhov
$26.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
From the teenager in provincial Russia in 1875 to his premature death in Germany in 1904, Chekhov wrote over 4,500 letters to a range of correspondents, including family and friends, his publisher and fellow writers - not to mention actresses. These letters tell the story of Chekhov's life as a man and ...Show more
Chernobyl Prayer - Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'A beautifully written book, it's been years since I had to look away from a page because it was just too heart-breaking to go on' - Arundhati Roy, Elle'One of the most humane and terrifying books I've ever read' - Helen Simpson, Observer The devastating history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Ale ...Show more
Chess: A Novel by Stefan Zweig
$12.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At f ...Show more
Child of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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: No Category | 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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