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Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Kerouac's first and most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format of the blues to create an original and moving epic. This editi ...Show more
Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Ch'eng-en
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, Monkey King was written anonymously during the Ming dynasty and is most commonly attributed to Wu Cheng'en, the son of a silk-shop clerk from east China. It recounts a Tang-dynasty monk's quest for Buddhist scriptures, accompanied by an omni-talented kung-fu M ...Show more
Monkey King - Journey to the West (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Wu Cheng'en; Julia Lovell (Notes by, Translator, Editor, Introduction by); Gene Luen Yang (Foreword by)
$37.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Before there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China's Monkey King, one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people--now published in a thrilling new one-volume translation with an illustrated foreword by Gene Luen Yang A Penguin Classics ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; Elaine Showalter (Introduction by)
$16.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that ...Show more
Mrs. Dalloway: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Woolf Virginia
$25.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, featuring a new foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. It's one ...Show more
My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Born into a theatrical family, Chaplin's father died of drink while his mother, unable to bear the poverty, suffered from bouts of insanity, Chaplin embarked on a film-making career which won him immeasurable success, as well as intense controversy. His extraordinary autobiography was first published in ...Show more
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs, William S Burroughs
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast ...Show more
Night (Modern Classics) by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War.
No Longer Human - (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Osamu Dazai; David Boyd (Notes by, Introduction by, Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A 75th-anniversary edition of the classic Japanese novel of alienation and the search for meaning and connection in the modern world, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years--for fans of Salinger, Camus, Sartre, Hesse, and the hit anime series Bungo Stray Dogs, which features a cha ...Show more
Nobody Leaves by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the great Ryszard Kapuscinski was a young journalist in the early 1960s, he was sent to the farthest reaches of his native Poland between foreign assignments. The resulting pieces brought together in this new collection, nearly all of which are translated into English for the first time, reveal a p ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
$14.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Catherine Morland should know better. She's the very ideal of a nice, normal girl. But Catherine is cursed with an overactive imagination. She is also obsessed with lurid Gothic novels, where terrible things happen to the heroine. Which gets her into all sorts of trouble... When Catherine visits Bath a ...Show more