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Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | 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.
Laughter in the Dark by Vladímir Nabokov
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic nov ...Show more
Metamorphosis (Penguin pocket classics) by Franz Kafka
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. Samsa must learn to ...Show more
Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-En
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'"After all," he said, "you're only a monkey spirit. How can you delude yourself into supposing that you can seize the Jade Emperor's throne?"' Featuring the adventures of the irrepressible, cloud-riding trickster Monkey and his band of unruly disciples, this centuries-old Chinese fantasy blends beauty ...Show more
The Secret Agent (Penguin pocket classics) by Joseph Conrad
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.'In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the ...Show more
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