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The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius by George Orwell
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Category: HISTORY | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and the silly'This is the most powerful portrait of England - and why it must change - ever written. Composed as bombs were falling over London at the height of the blitz, it remains ...Show more
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | 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 Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy, Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity and the British expat community in Hollywood, published in Penguin Modern Classics.The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawn ...Show more
The Merchant of Prato : Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City by Iris Origo
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1870 an astonishing cache, containing some 150,000 letters and great numbers of business documents, came to light. Iris Origo drew on this material to paint, in detail, a picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance. Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who fo ...Show more
The Mission Song by John le Carré
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and Congolese warlords, an interpreter finds his conscience re-awakening.Bruno Salvador has worked on clandestine missions before. A highly skilled interpreter, he is no stranger to the Official Secrets Act. But this is the first time he has been asked ...Show more
The Modern Witchcraft Book of Crystal Magick - Your Complete Guide to the Power of Crystals by Judy Ann Nock
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Age | Series: Modern Witchcraft Magic, Spells, Rituals Ser.
Harness the power of crystals in your spells and rituals with this comprehensive guide to crystal magick as well as crystal-focused spells and full-color inventory of 50 useful stones and gems.In the intensity of the fiery cauldron of transformation, a series of reactions and bonds occurred to culminate ...Show more
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
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Category: POLITICS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, explor ...Show more
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver finds 'the Pearl of the World' he believes that his impoverished life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in the church and their son, Coyotito, will go to school. Obsessed by his dream, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses ...Show more
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Simone de Beauvoir's essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of "woman," and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. Unabridged in English for the first time, this long-awaited edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in ...Show more
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. 'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not ...Show more
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: Adult
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the sc ...Show more
The Tree of Man by Patrick White
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
"One of Patrick White s most loved novels in which he creates a memorable portrait of human resilience Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for companions, journeys to a remote scrubby patch of land that he has inherited in the Australian hills. When the land is cleared enough for a rudimentary hous ...Show more