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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses ...Show more
Bedtime Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller's art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire. From the surreal night visions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman B ...Show more
My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon
$12.95 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Maigret is going about his work in rainy Paris, followed around by Inspector Pyke who has come from Scotland Yard to study the famous French detective's methods. Routine is disturbed when Maigret receives a telephone call from the island of Porquerolles off the Mediterranean coast. A small-time crook ha ...Show more
Pocket Rumi by Kabir Helminski
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Shambhala Pocket Classics
Rumi has never been more popular among western readers. Here is a pocket-sized collection of his inspiring poetry, small enough to take anywhere. Pocket Rumi contains selections from four previously published books, as well as translations of Rumi's short lyric poems by Kabir and Camille Helminski, amon ...Show more
Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh by Thich Nhat Hanh
$15.00 AUD
Category: Mind & Body | Series: Pocket Classic
This is a collection of powerful and inspiring teachings in an appealing, convenient pocket-size book from one of today's most important and beloved spiritual teachers, the Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Next to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh is the best-known Buddhist teacher in the w ...Show more
Stories from the Kitchen by Diana Secker Tesdell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Food | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics
Stories from the Kitchen is a mouth-watering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role, by a rich variety of authors from Dickens, Chekhov and Saki to Isak Dinesen, Jim Crace and Amy Tan. The menu includes choice titbits from famous novels: the triumphant boeuf en daube served in Virginia Wo ...Show more
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional call-girl, his d ...Show more
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Some journeys are best left unmade... Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents ...Show more
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is w ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$16.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Considered by many to the greatest novel ever written, Tolstoy's masterpiece is a story of family life set against the backdrop of war. The novel begins in 1805, in the crowded and gossip-filled rooms of a St Petersburg party, and follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Bolkonsky and Rostov families as ...Show more
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