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The Lost Estate (Penguin pocket classics) by Henri Alain-Fournier
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
'He too began to chase the great pierrot through the corridors of the ch teau...' A novel of desperate yearning and vanished adolescence, the story of Meaulnes and his restless search for a lost, enchanted world has the atmosphere of a dream and the purity of a fairy tale. A new series of twenty distinc ...Show more
The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
'He scampered over rooftops, swam in deep water, leapt from balconies.' Set in the vanished world of the shtetl of nineteenth-century eastern Europe, this spellbinding fable tells the story of Yasha: magician, mesmerist, juggler, sword swallower, master of escape - and breaker of hearts.
The Malay Archipelago (Penguin Pocket Classics No. 4) by Alfred Russel Wallace
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head'Alfred Russel Wallace left to explore the islands of southeast Asia an obscure naturalist; he returned eight years later an acclaimed scientist and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution. This is his vivid, exh ...Show more
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins | Reading Level: good
'Manuscripts don't burn' In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural ...Show more
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin pocket classics) by Rainer Maria Rilke
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
'There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.'This dreamlike meditation on being young and alone in Paris is a feverish work of nerves, angst and sublime beauty from one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.A new series of twenty distinctive, unf ...Show more
The Rainbow (Penguin pocket classics) by D. H. Lawrence
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
'So Ursula became the child of her father's heart.' The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family and their struggles with each other and themselves. Beautiful, strange and with a power all its own, The Rainbow redefined the English novel. A new series of twenty distinctive, ...Show more
The Secret Agent (Penguin pocket classics) by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
'The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.'In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the ...Show more
Walden: Penguin Pocket Classics by Henry Thoreau
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Inspiring, brilliantly written, cantankerous and funny - Walden is both a very specific ...Show more