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Complete Poems by Warren Vivian De Sola; Roberts D. H.; Pinto Lawrence
$41.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Coolie by Mulk Raj Anand
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bomboy and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for survival t ...Show more
French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David
$26.95 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
First published in 1962, Elizabeth David's culinary odyssey through provincial France forever changed the way we think about food. With elegant simplicity, David explores the authentic flavors and textures of time-honored cuisines from such provinces as Alsace, Provence, Brittany, and the Savoie. Full o ...Show more
Howards End by David (INT) E. M.; Lodge Forster
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics, | Reading Level: very good
In "Howard's End", E.M. Forster unveils the English character as never before, exploring the underlying class warfare involving three distinct groups - a wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man living on the edge of poverty. The sou ...Show more
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
$21.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
A chronicle of success and failure, this work is Bellow's tale of the writer's life in America. When Humboldt dies a failure in a seedy New York hotel, Charlie Citrine coping with the tribulations of his own success, begins to realize the significance of his own life.
Jacob's Room by Sue Virginia; Roe Woolf
$16.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Loser Takes All by Graham Greene
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Luck seems to have eluded Betram altogether. He doesn't even believe in chance. But when his wedding plans are moved to Monte Carlo, he is drawn to the Casino and is seduced by good fortune. A Miramax film starring Robert Lindsay and Molly Ringwald.
Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
A collection of 32 stories in which the author portrays an astrologer, a snake-charmer, a postman, a vendor of pies and chappatis - all kinds of people, drawn in full colour and domestic detail. The imaginary city of Malgudi springs to life, revealing the essence of India and of human experience.
Martin Eden by Jack London
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
$28.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
"Mysteries"(1892) is the story of Johan Nilsen Nagel, a mysterious stranger who suddenly turns up in a small Norwegian town one summer-and just as suddenly disappears. Nagel is a complete outsider, a sort of modern Christ treated in a spirit of near parody. He condemns the politics and thought of the ag ...Show more
Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Classics) by CRISP Quentin
$34.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
"As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb...I realized that I had made a mistake, " Quentin Crisp declares, giving a small hint of the witty and wry approach he takes toward the life he describes with uninhibited exuberance in this classic autobiography, which is both a comic masterpiece and a uniqu ...Show more