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The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Fifty years since first publication, E. P. Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael Kenny. This classic and imaginative account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, ...Show more
The Middle of Nowhere by Geraldine McCaughrean
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Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Usborne Modern Classics Ser.
When her mother dies from a snake bite, Comity's life in the Australian outback changes for ever. Her father retreats into his work trasmitting telegrams, abdoning Comity when she needs him most. Then a new assistant arrives who delights in playing cruel games. Soon Comity struggles to hold things toget ...Show more
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
27.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece - a big, boisterous and unforgettable novel about freedom and commitment that ignited the flames of environmental activism. Throughout the vast American West, nature is being victimized by a Big Government / Big ...Show more
The Mountains of My Life by Walter Bonatti
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Mountains of My Life" collects Walter Bonatti's classic writings detailing his exploits on numerous expeditions to different mountains of the world, as well as the real story behind the controversy over the events on K2 that changed his life. Bonatti is one of the greatest mountaineers of all time, ...Show more
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, explor ...Show more
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Richard Alpert
22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Psychedelic Experience", created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent mind-expanding inquiries. In this wholly unique book, the authors provide an interpretation of an ancient ...Show more
The Rendezvous and Other Stories by Dapne Du Maurier
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The stories in this collection, some written before du Maurier published her first novel, reflect many human emotions: romance, disenchantment, fantasy, nostalgia, ambition, irony, the longing for adventure. Each of them is based on something observed, something overheard, and all will provide pleasure ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 1 : I Know My Own Heart by Anne Lister
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller ? and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. Th ...Show more
The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triump ...Show more
The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The one saving grace is his love for his master's daughter, Wanda. They begin a secret affair, trying to avoid the cruelty of the other villagers, until one day Jacob's fortunes ...Show more
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestseller. The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short - and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to w ...Show more