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Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in which his autobiographical hero Jac ...Show more
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tayo, a young World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns home to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. Deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese, and further wounded by the rejection and alienation that he feels amongst his own people, he faces a fierce struggle to find inner peace. O ...Show more
Demian by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Demian is a coming-of-age story that follows a young boy's maturation as he grapples with good and evil, lightness and darkness, and forges alternatives to the ever-present corruption and suffering that he sees all around him. Crucial to this development are his relationships with a series of older ment ...Show more
Ka - 2019 Edition by Roberto Calasso
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In Ka, Roberto Calasso delves into the corpus of classical Sanskrit literature recreating and re-imagining the enchanting world of ancient India. Beginning with the Rig-Veda, Ka weaves together myths from the Upanishad, the Mahabharata and the stories of the Buddha, all of which pose questions that have ...Show more
Mahabharata by NARAYAN R.K.
$34.95 AUD
Category: Indian Sacred Texts | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Includes characters who are obsessed with the rise and fall of gods, empires and heroes.
Meetings With Remarkable Men by G. I. Gurdjieff
$22.99 AUD
Category: George Gurdjieff | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the exhilarating, life-affirming call to spiritual arms from world-renowned spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. 'Gurdjieff's voice is heard as a call. He calls because he suffers from the inner chaos in which we live. He calls to us to open our eyes. He asks us why we are here, what we wish for, ...Show more
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, "Nausea" is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition is translated from the French by Robert Baldick with an introd ...Show more
Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
First published in the 1920's, "The Prophet" an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, the book is perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the Twentieth Century and has sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. Gibran's protagonist, called simply 'the "Prophet"', delivers ...Show more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
This edition has a NEW introduction by PAULO COELHO. Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and mo ...Show more
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene by Adonis
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Written in the early 1960s by Adonis, 'the most eloquent spokesman and explorer of Arabic modernity' (Edward Said), Songs of Mihyar the Damascene is widely considered to be the apex of the modernist poetry movement in the Arab world, and a radical departure from the rigid formal structures that had domi ...Show more
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and ...Show more
The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic' Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contempor ...Show more