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Morrissey - Autobiography by Morrissey
22.95 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades. Achieving eleven Top 10 albums (p ...Show more
Number the Stars: Collins Modern Classics by Lois Lowry
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Category: 8-12+ Years | 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
Number the Stars (PB) by Lois Lowry
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Category: 13+ Years | Series: HarperCollins Children's 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 th ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
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
Shallows by Tim Winton
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
No.1 Australian Bestseller.Author Published Internationally. Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passinig defines the rythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begin ...Show more
Southern Mail: Night Flight by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, an intrepid and eccentric adventurer, transferred his passion for flying to the written word by writing several classics of aviation literature, including "Southern Mail" and "Night Flight". Based on Saint-Exupery's trail-blazing flights for the French airmail service over the ...Show more
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more
The Beautiful And Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and the Damned" includes an introduction by Geoff Dyer in "Penguin Modern Classics". Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age gl ...Show more
The Children's Bach by Helen Garner
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Athena and Dexter Fox lead a contended family life with their sons, Arthur and Billy. Dexter is gregarious and opinionated. Athena runs an ordered household. But the arrival of Dexter's old friend Elizabeth, and her charismatic companions, reveals a world in which contingency and choice play a far great ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; Susan Massotty (Translator); Elie Wiesel; Otto Frank (Editor); Mirjam Pressler (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the de ...Show more
The Fran Lebowitz Reader (PB) by Fran Lebowitz
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Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS'She's inexhaustible ...Show more