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Cloudstreet: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1992 - Penguin Australian Classics by Tim Winton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Two rural families - the Pickles and the Lambs - flee to the city after separate catastrophes. They find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch - and for twenty years, they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until the ...Show more
Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This is the publication of Clarice Lispector's collected stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose ...Show more
Confessions by St Augustine; R S Pine-Coffin (Translated by)
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Category: Mind, Body, Spirit | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Augustine's Confessions might be one of the most profound Christian testimonies ever recorded. Not necessarily because Augustine led an unusual life or faced intriguing circumstances which had to be overcome; because, in reality, the actual events of his life were relatively less than extraordinary. Aug ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, "David Copperfield" is edited with an introduction and notes by Jeremy Tambling in "Penguin Classics". "David Copperfield" is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhapp ...Show more
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Two French priests, friends since childhood, are sent to the newly created diocese of New Mexico. Life there is hard and frequently dangerous. Journeys between parishes are beset by the perils of bandits and storms. The people do not always want to hear the priests' message. But through their many years ...Show more
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
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Category: Art and Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari i ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England- an apparently unmanned shipis wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman disco ...Show more
Early Christian Writings - The Apostolic Fathers by Staniforth Maxwell, Maxwell Staniforth
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Category: Mind, Body, Spirit | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Focuses on traditions and organisation of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. This title presents an account of the early Church and outlines a form of early Christianity drawing on the theology and traditions of its parent religion, Judaism. Contents: Firs ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich fa ...Show more
Either/Or by Soren Kirkegaard
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Published in 1843, this is one of the earliest of Kierkegaard's major works. The author plays devil's advocate putting forward two opposing points of view challenging the reader to question the different alternatives. This book is written to provoke philosophical debate.
Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.' The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth ...Show more
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Jorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art form--in his case, the short story. His work has been paid the ultimate honor of being appropriated and imitated by innumerable writers on every continent of the world. The seventeen brief masterpieces of FICCIONES expl ...Show more