In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages) by Bruce Chatwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the peopl ...Show more
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library EditionThe deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime, but a mole in Moriarty's criminal organization alerts Sherlock Holmes of the evil deed by means of a cipher . . . When Holmes and Watson arrive at a Sussex manor house the ...Show more
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics
The Pearl is a haunting and timeless tale of the dangers of unexpected wealth by Nobel prizewinner John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Kino is a desperately poor Mexican pearl diver. But when he finds 'The Pearl of the World' ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter by Various
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
The ultimate festive anthology of the best Christmas stories of all time, selected from around the world Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the ...Show more
They're a Weird Mob: Text Classics by Nino Culotta
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Just off the boat from Italy, Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he's never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking. They're a Weird Mobis an hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience in Menzies-era Australia, by a writer with a brilliant ear fo ...Show more
The Harp in the South Trilogy by Ruth Park
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Ruth Park . . . that steady glow at the heart of Australian literature.' Ruth CracknellThree of Ruth Park's best loved books - Missus, The Harp in the Southand Poor Man's Orange- are brought together in this volume, tracing the saga of the Darcy family over thirty years. The story has its beginnings in ...Show more
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobe Abe
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Category: Classics
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel.After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sandpit. But when he ...Show more
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
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Category: Classics | Series: English Library
'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign'. To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay "On Liberty" is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who or ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?' Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move ...Show more
1984 & Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
George Orwell's novels about the dangers of tyranny, the corruption of the state and the enslavement of the individual are essential reading. In an era of doublespeak, they remain chillingly prophetic.Introductions by Charlotte Wood, 1984and Don Watson, Animal Farm.
I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics
To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Weaving ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others.