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Cloudstreet: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1992 - Penguin Australian Classics by Tim Winton
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Category: No Category | 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
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
This is Marx and Engel's landmark treatise - in a graphic deluxe edition. One of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated, "The Communist Manifesto" is a revolutionary summons to the working class - an incisive account of a new theory of communism that would be brought about ...Show more
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain. A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the obj ...Show more
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The sixth century was not a peaceful time for the Roman empire. Invaders threatened on all fronties, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, the Emperor Justinian's greatest general. With this book Robert Graves again demonstrates his command of a vast historical subject, creating a st ...Show more
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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
David Copperfield (Clothbound Classics) by Charles Dickens; Jeremy Tambling (Introduction by, Notes by); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Dickens narrates in this novel episodes of his own life from his childhood to adulthood, personalized in the figure of David or Trot, a boy who goes through different vicissitudes in life, from his studies in a boarding school to the death of his mother and the ruthless job in a factory in 19th century ...Show more
Death Of Grass, The
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and riots, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it turns out, the governments have been lying to their people. When the deadly disease hits B ...Show more
Decline And Fall (TV Tie in) by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A tie-in edition of Waugh's first and funniest novel to accompany the new BBC adaptation starring Jack Whitehall. Sent down from Oxford University for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of Her Majesty's priso ...Show more
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Thomas Hardy
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Hardy described "Desperate Remedies" as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes ...Show more
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A darkly witty tale of two siblings' struggle to achieve happiness in the shadow of their father's prideTo Paul Dombey, business is all and money can do anything. He runs his family life as he runs his firm: coldly, calculatingly and commercially. The only person he cares for is his frail son, grooming ...Show more
Don Juan by Lord Byron
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he bec ...Show more