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Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is an unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grac ...Show more
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul' William S. Burroughs 'Kathy Acker's writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can tame. Acker is a landmark writer' Jeanette Winterson. This is the story of Janey, who lived in a l ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age be ...Show more
Catullus In English by Gaius Valerius Catullus
$16.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics: Poets in Translation S.
Roman lyric poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84-c.54 BC) wrote Society verses, fierce satiric poems and descriptive mythological pieces. This collection presents Catullus in all his voices and genres, as well as translations from Sidney and Jonson, Ezra Pound and Stevie Smith.
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain. A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the obj ...Show more
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
$26.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed? In his revolutionary work on control and power relations in our pub ...Show more
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that, instead of laying their ghosts to rest, they become caught up in a train of strange events. This volume contains stories that exp ...Show more
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
$26.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ethics is taken from the highly influential series of courses Foucault taught at the College de France from 1970 to 1982. This volume also includes a selection of engaging and unusually candid interviews, as well as excerpts from Foucault's key writing on ethics.
Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs
$22.95 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all play their parts in this mosaiclike, experimental nov ...Show more
Flush : Little Black Classic by Virginia Woolf
$5.99 AUD
Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Li ...Show more
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
$37.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A novel of army life in the calm before Pearl Harbor: A New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award winner, and "one of the great books of our time" (Newsday). At the Pearl Harbor army base in 1941, Robert E. Lee Prewitt is Uncle Sam's finest bugler. A career soldier with no patience for army poli ...Show more