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Frogs and Other Plays
Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' "The Frogs and Other Plays" offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in Ancient Greek history. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated by David Barrett with revisions, an i...
Pictures from Italy
An account of Charles Dickens's experiences in Italy in which he portrays a nation of great contrasts: between grandiose buildings and squalid poverty, and between past and present. Combining travelogue with social commentary, this book is depicts an exciting and disquieting journey....
A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel
A semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers....
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Popular Penguins
'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime' Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So ...
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
A stunning 3-in-1 edition of one of the great works of Western literature.An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally...
Big Trouble (#3 Friday Barnes)
Friday Barnes has a new case, and this time it?s personal!When Friday?s father turns up out of the blue, he brings his daughter some distressing news - Friday?s mother has been kidnapped! But who would want to kidnap a theoretical physicist? The Headmaster needs Friday?s help too, when Highcrest Academy...
Cressida Campbell
Cressida Campbell celebrates the career of an exceptional Australian colourist who has worked between painting and printmaking for over forty years. Combining keen observation with formal design, Campbell uses an innovative technique to create woodblock paintings and unique woodcut prints that take dire...
Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism
Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC's flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, ...
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