Kallocain by Karin Boye; David McDuff (Introduction by, Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The classic World War II-era dystopian novel, written at the midpoint between Brave New World and 1984, in its first new translation in more than fifty years. Leo Kall is a zealous middle-ranking scientist in the totalitarian World State who has just made a thrilling discovery: a new drug, Kallocain, ...Show more
Kallocain by Karin Boye
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers. Written midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian 'World State' which seeks to crush the individual entirely. ...Show more
Kangaroo by Lawrence D.H
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Imprint Classics Ser.
Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers, and his German wife Harriet, in the early 1920s. This appears to be semi-autobiographical, based on a three-month visit to Australia by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, in 1922. The novel includes a chapte ...Show more
King Lear by William Shakespeare
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A moving tragedy of political intrigue and family strife, William Shakespeare's King Lear is edited by George Hunter, with an introduction by Kiernan Ryan in Penguin Shakespeare. 'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!' The ageing King Lear, tired of office, decides to split ...Show more
King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics
Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled ne ...Show more
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
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Category: Classics
Allan Quartermain had been a trader and hunter all his life and knew Africa as well as any white man. He was returning to Natal, South Africa, when Sir Henry Curtis tracked him down and made him a proposition. Curtis's brother had heard of the famous, fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. He has taken a ...Show more
Kleinzeit by Russell Hoban
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'An original ... a delight to read' The Times On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in love with the divine, rosy-cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into a que ...Show more
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Translator Meredith McKinney
"Kokoro", meaning 'heart', is a tantalizing novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. Set in the early twentieth century, when the death of the emperor Meiji gave way to a new era in Japanese politicial and cultural life, the novel enacts the transition ...Show more
Korean Folktales by JAKE JACKSON
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
Everyday folk and fairy tales from Korea with magicians, magistrates, mischievous creatures and devious sprites. Organized into four sections - Love, Marriage & Family, Powerful Spirits & Mystical Realms, The Magical & the Supernatural, Tales of Animals & Mythical Creatures - this de ...Show more
Kuniyoshi by Matthi Forrer
$260.00 AUD
Category: Classics
This sumptuously produced monograph showcases the work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one of the last great Japanese masters of ukiyo-e prints, illustrations, and paintings. Best known for his depictions of fierce samurai warriors in battle, Utagawa Kuniyoshi also produced landscapes, portraits of Kabuki actors, ...Show more
Kusamakura by Sôseki Natsume; Natsume Sôseki; Meredith McKinney (Translator, Introduction by)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A stunning new English translation--the first in more than forty years--of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura--meaning "grass pillow"--follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring ...Show more