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A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'In December 1937 I crossed the Pyrenees from France - two days on foot through the snow.' Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately ...Show more
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER * Family drama and the legacy of slavery haunt this epic tale of an enigmatic stranger in Jefferson, Mississippi--from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. "Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a ca ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies d ...Show more
Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally prot g ...Show more
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England (Time), Evelyn Waugh's third novel helped to establish his reputation as a mater satirist. We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way. When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African sta ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945 this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.
Chess: A Novel by Stefan Zweig
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
Collages by Anais Nin
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
"Collages began with an image which had haunted me. A friend, Renate, had told me about her trip to Vienna where she was born, and of her childhood relationships to statues. She told me stories of her childhood, her relationship to her father, her first love. I begin the novel with: Vienna was the city ...Show more
Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid by Malcolm Lowry
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Unpublished in his lifetime, this book returns to the Mexico of the author's Under the Volcano. Sigbjorn Wilderness descends into an inferno of abysses, labyrinths and demons to confront his past and his destiny. His search finally takes him to the scene of the worst terrors of his drunken past.
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Nine of Yukio Mishima's finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters are sophisticated modern Japanese who turn out to be not so liberated f ...Show more
Deep Water: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?' Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of he ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich fa ...Show more