Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
$20.00 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
$23.00 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in the late 1990s and a bestseller at the time, this incisive collection of short stories explores connection and disconnection in families, between ex-lovers and friends. From a father reflecting on the daughter whose lesbianism he cannot accept, to two people who were once young togeth ...Show more
The Complete Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem
$35.00 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: Brambly Hedge
The mice of Brambly Hedge have been delighting adults and children alike for more than thirty years. All eight of the classic picture books are brought together in this exquisite volume. The mice of Brambly Hedge made their first appearance in 1980 when the four seasonal stories were published. Ever sin ...Show more
The Yellow Wall-Paper and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Kate Bolick (Introduction by)
$48.00 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her chilli ...Show more
The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
When Kate Chopin's classic was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her death, The Awakening is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement and a celebrated work of ear ...Show more
Middlemarch by George Eliot
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Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day'. George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a ...Show more
The Forsyte Saga Volume 2 by John Galsworthy
$33.00 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a woman's reputation. Brittany conjures ancient c ...Show more
Generals Die in Bed: War Popular Penguins by Charles Yale Harrison
$9.95 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
All war is hell. But for troops serving in World War I, it was the bloodiest trench warfare ever known. GENERALS DIE IN BED is a first-hand account of one young man catapulted from new recruit to walking wounded on the Western Front.From day one, he's surrounded by mud and fear. Artillery whistles down ...Show more
ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins by C. E. W. Bean
$9.95 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: War Popular Penguins
The First World War was the blooding of the young Australian nation. Five years after Australia's overwhelming response to Britain's declaration of war, nearly a fifth of the 330,000 Australians who served overseas lay dead. Charles Bean witnessed it all. Appointed official war correspondent with the Au ...Show more
The ANZACS: War Popular Penguins by Patsy Adam-Smith
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Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
Gallipoli was the final resting place for thousands of young Australians. Death struck so fast there was no time for escape or burial. and when Gallipoli was over there was the misery of the European Campaign. Patsy Adam-Smith read over 8000 diaries and letters to write her acclaimed best-seller about t ...Show more
Flesh in Armour: War Popular Penguins by Mann Leonard
$9.95 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
Nearly 420 000 Australians enlisted during the First World War, and more than half were killed, wounded or captured. the conflict was the most costly in Australia's history. In the fates of his protagonists in his acclaimed Flesh in Armour - one dies valiantly, one dies in an abject and mentally unhinge ...Show more
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