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Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
"'How are you?' said Mathieu. 'I thought you were dead.'" Following a Parisian philosophy teacher through the caf s and bars of Montparnasse over two days in the sweltering summer of 1938, Sartre's searing novel explores what it truly means to be free.
Don't Look Now (Pocket Penguin) by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Now, ill-lit, almost in darkness, the windows of the houses shuttered, the water dank, the scene appeared altogether different, neglected, poor, and the long narrow boots moored to the slippery steps of cellar entrances looked like coffins.' A slow-burning masterpiece of horror recounting a grieving co ...Show more
Natural Woman by Penelope Sach
$16.95 AUD
Category: General Health | Series: Australian pocket Penguins
In our increasingly chemical world, here are simple, natural solutions to health issues that every woman faces. Naturopath and herbalist Penelope Sach details the symptoms, prevention and treatment of common physical and emotional concerns, including: ~ weight control ~ fatigue and depression ~ stress ~ ...Show more
Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London.' Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war'.
Ten Days that Shook the World: Penguin Pocket Classics by John Reed
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
This account of the Russian Revolution by a western journalist has been admired worldwide since its first publication in 1919. Lenin endorsed it as "a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant to the comprehension of what really is the Proletarian Revolution." Reed was able to obse ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back to my mind'. Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundl ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau (pocket Penguin) by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'The eyes that glanced at me shone with a pale-green light' A crazed vivisectionist engineers a new super-breed of monstrous 'Beast Men' on a remote Pacific island, in H. G. Wells's Victorian scientific nightmare of man playing god. Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Peng ...Show more
The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Category: Classics | 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: Classics | 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 Twelve Caesars by Suetonius; Robert Graves (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies, each about one of the Roman emperors, including one on Julius Caesar. It was written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius, in 121. Considered highly significant in antiquity, The Twelve Caesars ha ...Show more
Wind, Sand and Stars (Pocket Penguin) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'It was a dark night, with only occasional scattered lights glittering like stars on the plain' The aviator and author of The Little Prince describes vast, otherworldly landscapes, crash landings and magical encounters in his transcendent account of flying over the Sahara and the Andes. Ten new titles i ...Show more
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