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Interpreting Dreams by Sigmund Freud
$26.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
By a detailed investigation of the universal phenomenon of dreaming, Freud discovered a radical new way of exploring the unconscious and recognized that dreams are a conflict and compromise between conscious and unconscious impulses. Through his insights about dreams, Freud was able to revise his method ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit.
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
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Category: Paperback Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY SALLEY VICKERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heart-breaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLERCatherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when ...Show more
Matilda (Modern Classics) by Roald Dahl
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Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
Matilda's parents have called her some terrible things. The truth is, she's a genius and they're the stupid ones. Matilda is determined to get her own back and soon discovers she has a very special power.A classic from the most popular children's writer.
Much Ado about Nothing by Jonathan Bate (Editor); Eric Rasmussen (Editor); William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Set in a courtly world of masked revels and dances, this play turns on the archetypal story of a lady falsely accused of unfaithfulness, spurned by her bridegroom, and finally vindicated and reunited with him. Villainy, schemes, and deceits threaten to darken the brilliant humor and sparkling wordplay-b ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-four (Popular Penguin - Redacted Cover Edition) by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101. 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'. Hidden away in the Record Depa ...Show more
Number the Stars: Collins Modern Classics by Lois Lowry
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Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: Essential Modern Classics Ser.
In Nazi-occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best friend from a terrible fate. Winner of the Newbery Medal, newly reissued in the Essential Modern Classics range. "They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews. They plan to take them a ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
Papillon by Henri Charriere
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Category: Biography | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Henri Charri re, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet ...Show more
Reading Lolita In Tehran by Azar Nafisi
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We all have dreams--things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discus ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For ...Show more
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into clumsy, unthinking rhinoceroses. The Chairs depic ...Show more