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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
$17.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition by Anthony Burgess
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?' This special edition of A Clockwork Orangerestores the text of Anthony Burgess' novel as he originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of his teen slang 'Nadsat', pages from the original typescript, explanatory notes, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light o ...Show more
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy: An Inspector Ramsay Novel 3 by Ann Cleeves
$18.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, and would plan to visit people she wanted to see as a welcome respite from the routine duties that being a vicar's wife entailed. But one Thursday in June was to be more special than an ...Show more
A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.
A Different Sound - Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers by Elizabeth Bowen; Daphne du Maurier; Elizabeth Taylor; Lucy Scholes (Editor)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Ireland--many being published in America for the first time These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and pro ...Show more
A Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
$19.98 AUD
Category: Philosophy Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man�s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies ...Show more
A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a stray dog and performs on it a human transplant - with disastrous consequences.
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social ...Show more
A Dutiful Daughter by Thomas Keneally; Geordie Williamson (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
It is the duty of a good child to let his parents know the second they turn into animals.Barbara Glover?s parents metamorphosed when she hit puberty, becoming bovine from the waist down. Fearful of her transformative powers, she tends diligently to them, keeping them like animals on the family?s remote ...Show more
A Fairly Honourable Defeat: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL 'I ...Show more
A Fantasy of Dr Ox by Jules Verne; Andrew Brown (Translator)
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
In the somnolent Flemish town of Quiquendone disagreements are unheard of, courtships might last a decade and not a ripple of activity can be seen at all. But when the mysterious Dr Ox is tasked with providing lighting for the town, strange things begin to happen: animals become aggressive, fruits grow ...Show more
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more