Browse by category
Hell's Angels: Popular Penguins by Hunter S. Thompson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
From the father of 'gonzo journalism', Hunter S. Thompson's research for Hell's Angels involved more than a year of close association with the outlaws who burned a path through 1960s America, resulting in a masterpiece of underground reportage published in Penguin Modern Classics.'A phalanx of motorcycl ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
Inferno: Popular Penguins by Dante Alighieri
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Welcome to hell.On Good Friday evening in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquaintan ...Show more
Jane Eyre: Popular Penguins by Charlotte Brontë
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Charlotte Bronte (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature.The literary heritage of the Bronte sisters entered the treasury of national English culture g ...Show more
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
The Gonzo memoir from one of the most influential voices in American literature, Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Hunter S. Thompson's life as a rebel--from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flaunting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, a ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover: Popular Penguins by D. H. Lawrence
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with notes by Michael Squires and an introduction by Doris Lessing.Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless ...Show more
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Madame Bovary is the debut Novel of French writer: Gustave Flaubert. published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.
Notes from Underground: Popular Penguins by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Popular Penguins by Ken Kesey
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-lovi ...Show more
Poems of John Keats: Popular Penguins by John Keats
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
John Keats (1795-1821) asked that his gravestone carry only the phrase 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water.' But although his life was short, he left work that sets his name among the greatest in English poetry, and the most admired by other poets. This pocket-sized selection for general readers ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe: Popular Penguins by Daniel Defoe
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Daniel Defoe's great masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my h ...Show more