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Because A White Man'll Never Do It by Kevin Gilbert
$24.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Kevin Gilbert's powerful expose of past and present race relations in Australia is an alarming story of land theft, attempted racial extermination, oppression, denial of human rights, slavery, ridicule, denigration, inequality and paternalism. First published in 1973, Gilbert's controversial account of ...Show more
Beyond Good And Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
$17.99 AUD
Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse; subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (German: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft)) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Za ...Show more
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
$14.99 AUD
Category: chapter books | Series: Arcturus Children's Classics Ser.
The timeless tale of a horse named Beauty With his fine black coat, his one white foot, and the distinctive white star on his forehead, Black Beauty is a magnificent creature, the pride of Squire Gordon's country estate. But when the squire has to move abroad, Beauty's fortunes change, and at the han ...Show more
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield
$22.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, f ...Show more
Blood (First Nations Classics) by Tony Birch
$19.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history | Series: First Nations Classics Ser.
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Blood is a coming-of-age story set on the back roads of Australia.Jesse has sworn to protect his sister, Rachel, no matter what. It's a promise that cannot be broken. A promise made in blood. But, when it comes down to life or death, how can he find the ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire (FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE)
$17.99 AUD
Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguins Classics Ser.
Theo Cuffe's marvelous translation of Voltaire's satirical masterpiece. With its vibrant new translation and perceptive introduction this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945 this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.
Careful, He Might Hear You: Text Classics by Sumner Locke Elliot
$14.95 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Based on the childhood of Sumner Locke Elliot, this novel is set in the Great Depression. PB, an orphan, lives a secure working-class life in Sydney. That's all about to change, however, when his Aunt Vanessa arrives from London and scoops him up to raise him as her own child."
Change Your Life: Essential Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
$26.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
"Crucefix's translation will have, and keep, a place on my shelves where all the poetry lives" - Philip Pullman A new selection and translation - by an acclaimed poet - of Rilke's most essential work, the perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life In these dazzling new translations by acclai ...Show more
Chantic Bird:Text Classics by David Ireland; George Williamson
$12.95 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
I'm only telling you this to let you know what a silly thing it is to live like I do. What it was, I got sacked from my seventeenth job for fighting or gambling - I don't know which - and because I was hardly ever there. I was gambling all right, but someone called me a cheat and swung at me, I moved my ...Show more
City Of God by St Augustine
$32.99 AUD
Category: black penguin 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