Browse by category
Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
$14.99 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.
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is much like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men. Tomorrow, s ...Show more
Laughter in the Dark by Vladímir Nabokov
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | 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
$14.99 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
Ten Days that Shook the World: Penguin Pocket Classics by John Reed
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
This account of the Russian Revolution by a western journalist has been admired worldwide since its first publication in 1919. Lenin endorsed it as "a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant to the comprehension of what really is the Proletarian Revolution." Reed was able to obse ...Show more
The Call Of Cthulhu: Penguin Pocket Classics by H. P. Lovecraft
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
* Book: The Call of Cthulhu * Biography * Bibliography "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu h ...Show more
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius; Robert Graves (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies, each about one of the Roman emperors, including one on Julius Caesar. It was written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius, in 121. Considered highly significant in antiquity, The Twelve Caesars ha ...Show more
1 - 7 of 7