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84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
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Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
84, Charing Cross Road with introduction by Anne Bancroft. 'A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with [humankind].'
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A stunning clothbound edition of John Kennedy Toole's savagely funny, satirical masterpiece, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble ...Show more
A Confederacy of Dunces (PB) by John Kennedy Toole
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses ...Show more
A Heart So White (PB) by Javier Marias
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"A Heart so White" is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe. "A Heart so White" begins as ...Show more
A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Mr Biswas is a man who is not naturally rebellious, but in whom rebellion is inspired by the forces of ritual, myth and custom. Though he has married into the family, Mr Biswas remains an outsider and refuses to follow the family in their habitual devotions.
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knavewas published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
Presents the portrait of Stephen Dedalus' Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself.
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
Forster's social comedy is a witty observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose heart is awakened by her experiences in Italy.
A Short History of the World by H.G. Wells
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Category: General History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An attempt to synthesize what is known of the immensity of world history, in a form that can be grasped by the layman. Well's view of "the great adventure of mankind" is presented in the same format as when it was first published in 1922.
A Woman in Berlin - Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945 by Anonymous; Antony Beevor (Introduction)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
* A startling account of a German survivor of the Second World War. 'One of the most important personal accounts ever written about the effects of war and defeat' Antony Beevor 'One of the most extraordinary and moving books I have ever read' Antonia Fraser
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo; Gavin Richards (adapted by)
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Category: Drama | Series: Modern Classics
In its first two years of production in Italy, Dario Fo's notorious Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world, and become a classic of twentieth-century drama. A sharp and hilarious satire on police corruption, it concerns the ...Show more