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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
$16.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie includes an introduction by Candia McWilliam in Penguin Modern Classics. Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, unconventional ideas and manipulative charm ho ...Show more
The Princess and the Pea by Carly Gledhill (Illustrator); Hans Christian Andersen
$13.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Bedtime Classics Ser.
Bedtime Classics: charmingly illustrated board book editions of perennial favorites, simplified for the youngest readers!Bedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character-driven narratives and colorful illustrations. Designed to be the perfect one-minute b ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
$32.99 AUD
Category: Mind | Body | Spirit | 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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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 Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Richard Alpert
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Psychedelic Experience", created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent mind-expanding inquiries. In this wholly unique book, the authors provide an interpretation of an ancient ...Show more
The Psychology of Love by Sigmund Freud
$27.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A collection of Freud's major texts on love, human relations and loss, including: "The Taboo on Virginity"; "On Female Sexuality"; "A Child is Being Beaten"; "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" and the case history "Dora".
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A brand new transaction of the "Psychopathology of Everyday Life" - one of 15 volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for the Penguin classics. This edition aims to reach beyond the institiutional/clinical market.
The Quest for Corvo by A.J.A. Symonds
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar novel called Hadrian the Seventh and, captivated by this forgotten masterpiece, determines to learn everything he can about its mysterious author. Symons proceeds as a detective might, investigating leads, collecting evidence and corresponding with ...Show more
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just society. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system rouse his fellow men from their political quietism. A masterpi ...Show more
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family, setting them against the emergence of modern England. This work examines the relationships and the conflicts they bring, and the inextricable mingling of the physical and the spiritual.
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version Of The Indian Epic by R. K. Narayan
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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 Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings by Alexander Pope; Leo Damrosch (Introduction by, Editor, Notes by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings is a collection of Alexander Pope's greatest works, edited with an introduction by Leo Damrosch in Penguin Classics. Alexander Pope was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse ...Show more