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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
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.
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
Night (Modern Classics) by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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.
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attractio ...Show more
Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass
$38.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S. | Reading Level: very good
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town in the 1890s, it chronicles - through the voices of vari ...Show more
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
$26.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
This generous selection of Georges Perec's non-fiction, the first to appear in English, features ingenious contemplations on the ways in which we occupy urban and domestic space, engrossing accounts of his experiences with psychoanalysis, depictions of the Paris of his childhood, thought-provoking exami ...Show more
Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
$19.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Twentieth Century Classics S.
Conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a nation in ferment and disintegration. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives us a record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally siezed power.
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
"The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories" collects some of Jack London's most profound and moving allegorical tales. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited by Andrew Sinclair with an introduction by James Dickey. "The Call of the Wild", London's masterpiece about a dog learning to survive ...Show more
The Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Take a man waiting - waiting between the two worlds of civilian life and the army, suspended between two identities - and you have a man who, perhaps for the first time in his life, is really free. However, freedom can be a noose around a man's neck.