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The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | 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 Outsider by Albert Camus
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. Today, more than fifty years after its first appearance, we can see that ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Oulipo - Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form by Philip Terry (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Books on Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Lovers of word games and literary puzzles will relish this indispensable anthology.' - The Guardian 'At times, you simply have to stand back in amazement.' - Daily Telegraph 'Philip Terry's collection is packed with fabulous, wide-ranging work that displays the full ingenuity, brio and originality of O ...Show more
The Pitards by Georges Simenon
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Read him at your peril, avoid him at your loss' Sunday TimesCaptain Lannec has finally managed to buy his own ship with the financial help of his in-laws, the Pitards - and they've never let him forget it. When his temperamental wife Mathilde insists on coming along on the ship's first voyage, Lanne ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
The Psychology of Love by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Self Development | 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 Rebel by Albert Camus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Books on Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Rebel" is Camus's attempt to understand the time 'I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Mr Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does his alluring yet alcoholic wife hire a private eye. The nameless detective has but two clues: a photo and a matchbook. With these, he embarks upon an ever-more-puzzling pursuit that leads him into the depths of Tokyo's ...Show more
The Russia House by John le Carré
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset ...Show more
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
All that deep-rooted vitality flowered in her voice, her face, in her very finger-tips. She felt like a tree bursting into bloom'Thea Kronberg, a young girl from the small desert town of Moonstone, Colorado, has a great gift - her beautiful singing voice. This talent will take her all the way to the gre ...Show more
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Commu ...Show more