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Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by custom and sorrow, without comfort or solace, where, eternally patient, the peasants lived in an age-old stillness and in the presence of death - for ...Show more
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and, the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic. These stories are woven together in a single tale of mayhem and chaos. In the first novel of the trilo ...Show more
Civilization & Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual.
Claudius the God by Robert Graves; Barry Unsworth (Foreword by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Read in the style of a secret diary, this famous sequel toI, Claudiusgives a wry and human view of the Roman world, bringing to life some of the most scandalous and violent times in history.Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. He reco ...Show more
Close-Up by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Deighton draws on his personal experience of the cut-throat Hollywood film industry in this dark and compelling thrillerDeighton's incendiary novel of the film industry uncovers a Hollywood Babylon for our time.Marshall Stone, international superstar and charismatic member of Hollywood's elite. Abundant ...Show more
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatch ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Fa ...Show more
Collected Poems: PMC by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nabokov's masterly "Collected Poems" span the decades of his career, from "Music", written in 1914, to the short, playful "To Vera", composed in 1974. "The University Poem", one of Nabokov's major poetic works, is here in English for the first time: an extraordinary autobiographical poem looking back at ...Show more
Collected Poems: Patrick Kavanagh by Patrick Kavanagh
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for ...Show more
Collected Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Written in inimitable prose, these 65 stories span Nabokov's extraordinary life and career. Arranged chronologically to illuminate his development as a writer, the collection displays Nabokov's range of technical and formal inventiveness.
Collected Stories Wallace Stegner by Wallace Stegner
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Powerful elemental stories from the heart of America. Tales of love and friendship, the order and power of the natural world, the chaos, contradictions of the human world. From the beloved and prizewinning author of Angle of Repose.
Collection of Sand by Italo Calvino
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Italo Calvino in Collection of Sand claimed that 'the brain begins in the eye'. The essays collected here display his fascination with the visual universe, in which the things we see tell a truth about the world. With encyclopedic knowledge and engaging curiosity, Calvino writes about such diverse subje ...Show more