The Time Machine: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins
A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have reason to be afraid: in tunnels bene ...Show more
Johnno by David Malouf
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. Seen through the eyes of the narrator, he is a figure of legendary proportions. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of gothic Brisbane, or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek landscape. But what is the truth about Johnno? Semi-auto ...Show more
Beowulf: Popular Penguins by Michael Alexander
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"Alexander's translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful and] ...communicates the poem with a care which goes beyond fidelity-to-meaning and reaches fidelity of implication. May it go on ... to another half-million copies." - Tom Shippey, Bulletin of the I ...Show more
Julius Caesar (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of "Julius Caesar"on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.Each No Fear Shakespeare containsulliThe complete text of the original play/liliA line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday languag ...Show more
Great Italian Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS
A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the ...Show more
Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS
A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Classics
Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and ...Show more
City Of God by St Augustine
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and "City of God" is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of R ...Show more
The Veiled Woman by Anais Nin
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Penguin Modern
What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?'Tales of transgressive desire and erotic adventure are recounted in these four shimmering pieces.
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles; Fagles (trans)
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.Collected here are Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at ...Show more
The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins by Donald Horne
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Category: FICTION - CLASSICS/MODERN CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "This often-oversimplified classic raises difficult questions about Australia's elites that are still worth asking. Are Australians, for example, still 'a largely non-contemplative people' who have "a limited view of the pos ...Show more