Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by SAPPHO
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Category: Classics
More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts co ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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Category: Classics
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also rel ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Katherine Mansfield's short stories revolutionised the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. They range from short, sharp studies to longer, richer tales, and 15 unfinished stories published after her death.
The Custard Heart (Mini Modern Classics) by Dorothy Parker
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
Only when the littler, kinder hours had succeeded noon could she bring herself to come forth and face the recurrent sorrows of living'A collection of satirical short stories set in New York from the master of scathing wit Dorothy Parker.
The Great Hunger (Mini Modern Classics) by Patrick Kavanagh
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided . . .'By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse.
The Haunted Boy (Mini Modern Classics) by Carson McCullers
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.'These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our search for happiness and understanding.
The History of Sexuality Volume 1 by Michel Foucault
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledgeis the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history of sexuality. He argues that the recent explosion of discussion about sex in the West means that, far from being liberated, we are in the process of making a science of sexuality that is devoted t ...Show more
The Hobbit: Illustrated by the Author [Illustrated Edition] by J R R Tolkien
$89.99 AUD
Category: Classics
For the first time ever, a special enhanced edition of the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout with over 50 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps by J. R. R. Tolkien himself and with the complete text printed in two colours. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfort ...Show more
The Pigeon: Popular Penguins by Patrick Suskind
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Jonathan Noel, bank security guard, has spent 30 years protecting himself from people and events. But an encounter with a glaring pigeon upsets his ordered life and flings him into a state of fear and insecurity. From the author of the international bestselling Perfume.
The Prophet by KAHLIL GIBRAN
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Prophet, a masterwork by Kahlil Gibran, is one of our time's most treasured classics. It was first published in 1923 and has since been translated into over twenty languages, with over nine million copies sold in the United States alone.The Prophet is a compilation of philosophical, spiritual, and, ...Show more
The Qur'an by Tarif Khalidi
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Category: Classics
Considered in Islam to be the infallible word of God, The Qur'an was revealed to the prophet Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel in a series of divine revelations over many years after his first vision in the cave. In 114 chapters, or surahs, it provides the rules of conduct that remain fundamental to Mus ...Show more
The Rise of the Roman Empire (PB) by Polybius
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200 - 118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: it ...Show more