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Tao Te Ching (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Lao-Tzu; John Minford (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper. The most translated book in the world after the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, or "Book of the Tao," is a guide to cultivating a life of peace, serenity, and compassion. Through aphorisms and parable, it leads readers toward the Tao, or the ...Show more
The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Virgil
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic. Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles' mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through sto ...Show more
The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the t ...Show more
The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas by Gertrude Stein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
An autobiography of Gertrude Stein and a roll-call of the painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. It is a definitive account by her in Paris.
The Avengers Penguin Classics by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Marvel Collection
The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. Collects The Avengers #1-4, 9, 16, 26, 28, 44, 57, 58, 71, 74, and 83. It is impossible to ima ...Show more
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil. The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the author himself in the brilliant Attempt at a Self-Criticism, which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most ...Show more
The Bodysurfers - Penguin Australian Classics by Robert Drewe
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - this bestselling collection of short stories is an Australian classic. The Bodysurfers vividly evokes the beach, with the scent of the suntan oil, the sting of the sun and a lazy se ...Show more
The Bolivian Diary by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967 Che Guevara left Cuba to lead the Bolivian Liberation Army. In the jungles of Bolivia they attempted to initiate a revolution like that in Cuba, in which Che had played such a central role. The opposing Bolivian Army was backed by the CIA, and Che and his men fought bravely in the jungle of Boli ...Show more
The Complete English Poems by John Donne
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods. Constant in his work, however, ...Show more
The Complete Novels of George Orwell by George Orwell
$85.00 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
His best-known novels, "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four", are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written. The other novels in this volume are also concerned with individuals at odds with repressive institutions: the corrupt imperialism of "Burmese Days", di ...Show more
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Black Classics
Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in THE JEW OF MALTA, and the humiliation of Edward II in his fall from power and influence, Marlowe exp ...Show more
The Cossacks and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Tolstoy's powerful semiautobiographical stories based on his time spent in the Russian army, part of our series of fresh new Tolstoy translations In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army. The four years he spent as a soldier were among the most significant in his life and i ...Show more