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The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck
$37.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1940, the author sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. This book offers a log of the expedition, combining combines science, philosophy and adventure.
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Lonely Londoners, an unforgettable account of immigrant experience and one of the great twentieth-century London novels, now in in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition.At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. The ...Show more
The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, this is a classic award-winning novel of immigrant life in London in the 1950s.
The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book "I am most glad to have written." An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent. He sets out full of hope to be ...Show more
The Looking Glass War by John le Carré
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It would have been an easy job for the Circus: a can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handled all things political while the Department dealt with military matters. But the Department has been moribund since the War; its resources siphoned away. Now, one of their agents ...Show more
The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) by Henri Alain-Fournier
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house and a beautiful girl hidden within it, he has been changed forever. In ...Show more
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century, and an influence on writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. "Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written" ...Show more
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori.
The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the major novels by Vladimir Nabokov, originally entitled "The Defense". The novel features a chess-playing genius Luzhin who discovers his gift in boyhood, rising to the rank of Grandmaster.
The Machine Stops by E M Forster
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that.' E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In "The ...Show more
The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town. N ...Show more
The Mahe Circle by Georges Simenon; Sian Reynolds (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first English publication of Georges Simenon's compelling novel about summer escape and elusive obsessions. 'The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son's bed, the deafening sound of cicadas' During his first holiday on the island of Porquerolles D ...Show more