The Lady in the Lake: And Other Novels by Raymond Chandler
$26.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Contains the author's three Philip Marlowe novels, "The Lady in the Lake", "The High Window" and "The Little Sister".
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject oflocal gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly ...Show more
The Snow Goose & The Small Miracle by Paul Gallico
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Did you run across that queer sort of legend about a wild goose? It was all up and down the beaches. You know how those things spring up. Some of the men I brought back were talking about it. It was supposed to have appeared at intervals the last days between Dunkirk and La Panne. If you saw it, you we ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Betty Radice
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics S.
A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men to behead him, provided that if he survives he can return the blow a year later. Sir Gawain accepts the wager and decapitates the knight ...Show more
David Copperfield (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics
When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak and friendship and betrayal. Over the course of his adventures, David meets an array of eccentric characters and learns hard les ...Show more
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Charles Dickens's first published work, "The Pickwick Papers" was an instant success that captured the public imagination with its colourful characters and farcical plot. This "Penguin Classics" edition of Charles Dickens's is edited with notes and an introduction by Mark Wormald. Few first novels have ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Classics
Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets - is one of them connected to the strange appearances of a young woman dressed all in white? And what does his charismatic friend, Count Fosc ...Show more
Inheritance by Louisa M. Alcott
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics S.
Louisa May Alcott, who spent much of her childhood amid an intellectual circle that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, embarked on her own literary efforts at an early age. Her recently discovered first novel, The Inheritance, written when Alcott was just 17, offers re ...Show more
Discourse on Method and Related Writings by RENE DESCARTES, René Descartes
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. It includes "Discourse on Method", the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scien ...Show more
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In the PENGUIN CLASSICS series, this is the story of Mr Pooter, an office clerk and upright family man in a dull 1880s suburb. His diary is a wonderful portrait of the class system and inherent snobbishness of the suburban middle classes. It contains all the original illustrations, a critical introducti ...Show more
Theaetetus by Plato
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$22.95 (28% off)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of knowledge itself, in a debate with the geometrician Theodorus and his young follower Theaetetus. Their dialogue covers many questions, such as: is knowledge purely sub ...Show more