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Civilization and Its Discontents: Popular Penguins by Sigmund Freud
$15.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud ...Show more
Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm: Popular Penguins by Stella Gibbons
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, Cold Comfort Farmby Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm... ...Show more
Curly Verse: Selected Poems - Popular Penguins by Michael Leunig
$9.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In this selection of poems covering the period 1972 to 2002. This beautifully elegant volume excludes the cartoon element, focusing on Leunig's brilliant texts, with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy and joyfulness. Michael Leunig pokes fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deplores the idiocy ...Show more
Dangerous Liaisons: Popular Penguins by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Depicting decadence and moral corruption in pre-revolutionary France, Dangerous Liaisons is one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Two aristocrats embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Mar ...Show more
Delta of Venus: Popular Penguins by Anais Nin
$13.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
An extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the mistress of erotic writing In Delta of Venus, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer se ...Show more
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Everything Is Illuminatedis Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for truth,published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.The inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, starring Elijah WoodA young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching ...Show more
Farewell My Lovely: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Crime | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler This is one of Chandler's most famous crime novels featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, who's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thi ...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
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming
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Category: Crime | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"SMERSH,the Russian intelligence unit, is hell-bent on destroying Special Agent James Bond. His death would deal a hammer blow to the heart of The British Secret Service. b>b>The lure?The chance for 007 to bring the Spektor decoding machine from Istanbul to London, and for the British to take the ...Show more
Generals Die in Bed: War Popular Penguins by Charles Yale Harrison
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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