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The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
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Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, explor ...Show more
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver finds 'the Pearl of the World' he believes that his impoverished life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in the church and their son, Coyotito, will go to school. Obsessed by his dream, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry by Jonathan Wordsworth
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's ...Show more
The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories by Henry Lawson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson has become part of the Australian national psyche, and his short stories and verse have come to affect how Australian's view their country.Yet at his best Lawson transcends even the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears th ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"The Portable Poe" compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum,""The Fall of the House of Usher,""The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this v ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli; George Bull (translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
"The Prince" shocked Europe on publication with its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) came to be regarded as some by an agent of the Devil and his name taken for the intriguer 'Machevill' of Jacobean tragedy. For his ...Show more
The Prose Edda by Jesse L. Byock, Jesse L Byock
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves ...Show more
The Psychology of Love by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Philosophy & Psychology | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A collection of Freud's major texts on love, human relations and loss, including: "The Taboo on Virginity"; "On Female Sexuality"; "A Child is Being Beaten"; "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" and the case history "Dora".
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just society. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system rouse his fellow men from their political quietism. A masterpi ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.