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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by James Joyce
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
$37.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A classic coming-of-age tale of a spirited heroine named Anne Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who is mistakenly sent to a pair of siblings who had wanted to adopt a boy to help with the work on their farm in Prince Edward Island. Anne's quirky personality and good-natured spirit cause the sib ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
$9.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damn ...Show more
Metamorphoses: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Ovid
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years,Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. A Penguin Classic Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns ...Show more
Monkey King - Journey to the West (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Wu Cheng'en; Julia Lovell (Notes by, Translator, Editor, Introduction by); Gene Luen Yang (Foreword by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Before there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China's Monkey King, one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people--now published in a thrilling new one-volume translation with an illustrated foreword by Gene Luen Yang A Penguin Classics ...Show more
Mrs. Dalloway: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Woolf Virginia
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, featuring a new foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. It's one ...Show more
No Longer Human - (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Osamu Dazai; David Boyd (Notes by, Introduction by, Translator)
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A 75th-anniversary edition of the classic Japanese novel of alienation and the search for meaning and connection in the modern world, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years--for fans of Salinger, Camus, Sartre, Hesse, and the hit anime series Bungo Stray Dogs, which features a cha ...Show more
The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Chinua Achebe; Kwame Anthony Appiah (Foreword by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who opened the magic casements of African fiction. The African Trilogy--comprised of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease--is his magnum opus. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives ...Show more
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. This definitive collection reveals the dev ...Show more
The Iliad: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition | Reading Level: very good
One of the epics in Western literature, "The Iliad" recounts the story of the Trojan wars. In his introduction, the author observes that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it co-exists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace.
The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe | Reading Level: very good
If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, ...Show more
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