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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
$25.04 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts S.
This is a collection of Borges's fiction, translated and gathered into a single volume. From his 1935 debut with "The Universal History of Iniquity", through the influential collections "Ficciones" and "The Aleph", to his final work from the 1980s, "Shakespeare Memory".
Collected Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
$22.00 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.
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the finest American authors of the 20th century, Wallace Stegner compiled an impressive collection of accolades during his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Book Award, and three O. Henry Awards. His final novel, Crossing to Safety is the quiet yet stirring tale of two ...Show more
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
$16.81 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In the city of Johannesburg a father seeks his delinquent son. His search takes him through a labyrinth of murder, prostitution, racial hatred and, ultimately, reconciliation.
Death Of Virgil The by Hermann Broch
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, Hermann Broch fashioned one of the great works of 20th-century modernism, a book that embraces an entire world and renders it with an immediacy that is at once sensual and profound.
Deliberate Prose by Allen Ginsberg
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In the PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS series, a selection of essays, letters, magazine articles and autobiographical writings by the twentieth century American beat generation poet, Allen Ginsberg.
Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
$17.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning.
Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler; J. M. Q. Davies (Translator); Frederic Raphael (Foreword by)
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Amidst a short spat between a married couple, the husband, a doctor, is summoned to the bedside of a dying man. So begins a series of involvements throughout the night in increasingly dangerous and deviant sexual adventures for Fridolin, who taken by a friend to a "secret" party, is forced to make choic ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
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
Essays by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce's life. The Penguin Modern Classics edition of includes an introduction by Seamus Deane'riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from ...Show more
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics