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Typhoon : Little Black Classic by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'She's done for...' The crew aboard a ramshackle steamer faces a treacherous storm in this gripping tale, inspired by Conrad's own time at sea. This is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a tast ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's "Ulysses" is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written betwe ...Show more
Ulysses (Clothbound Classic) by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Set in Dublin, Ulysses tells the story of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin (16 June 1904). The title of the work references the fact that James Joyce draws heavily on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey, in the work, creating parallels between Bloom and Ulysses (Odysseus), Molly Bloom and Penelope (U ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes. At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly e ...Show more
Waterloo : Little Black Classic by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 125
'Brave Frenchmen, will you not surrender?' Cambronne answered, 'Merde!' A tense, dramatic account of the Battle of Waterloo - and how a rain shower changed history - from Victor Hugo's epic novel Les Misérables. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the firs ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These works culminated in What is Art?, published in 1898. Impassioned and iconoclastic, this powerfully influential work both criticizes ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. Two devastating Russian stories of solitude, unrequited love and depravity from beyond the grave. Film adaptations have been made by Italian ...Show more
Why I Am so Clever : Little Black Classic by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 102
Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether? Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, "Wives and Daughters" centres on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father. When he remarries a new stepsister, Cynthia, enters Molly's quiet life. Loveable but worldly and troubling, Cynthia's arrival alters Molly's d ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Wuthering Heights" is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, i ...Show more