George Orwell's Elephant and Other Essays - And Other Essays by Subhash Jaireth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
In his new collection of essays Subhash Jaireth traverses the globe in an exploration of the personal and collective memory held within natural and built landscapes.His roving curiosity takes us from his early life in Delhi to his years as a student in Soviet-era Moscow. We travel to Burma with George O ...Show more
Holmes, Margaret and Poe by James Patterson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Holmes, Marple, & Poe Investigations is New York's newest detective agency, and its best. But who are the three investigators with their three famous names? In New York City, three intriguing, smart, and stylish private investigators open Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. Who are these de ...Show more
The Arabian Nights (Deluxe Edition) by Muhsin Mahdi (translated by Hussain Haddawy)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed, these are new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories. Husain Haddawy's "highly recommended" ("The Times") translation of "The Arabian Nights" is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. Rea ...Show more
The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
An international bestseller Over 80 million copies sold worldwide A PBS Great American Read Top 100 pick A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of sel ...Show more
Great Books of China by Frances Wood
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Discover or rediscover the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. Great Books of China offers concise introductions each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question to sixty-six works in the canon of Chinese literature. The books chosen reflect the c ...Show more
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, nameless numbers, survivors of a devastating war, live out lives devoid of passion and creativity. Until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Reputedly the inspiration for Orwell's 1984.
The Aeneid by Virgil; Robert Fagles (Trans)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Robert Fagles' award-winning translations of Homer's twin works "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" have sold more than a million copies and become classics in their own right. With this stunning modern verse translation, Fagles introduces Virgil's "Aeneid" to a whole new generation of readers and completes t ...Show more
After Nature by W.G. Sebald
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Three men walk the pages of W. G. Sebald's first literary work - the painter Mathaeus Grunewald, the botanist Georg Wilhelm Steller and W. G. Sebald himself. Written as a long poem in three parts, After Nature delves into each of these lives in turn, teasing out the haunting uncertainties of the past an ...Show more
Hans Christian Andersen Tales (Word Cloud Classics) by Hans Christian Andersen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
"It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg "--Hans Christian Andersen, "The Ugly Duckling." Fairy tales are timeless treasures passed from generation to generation, and few are as beloved as those of Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen. From the p ...Show more
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; Stella McNichol (Editor); Jenny Offill (Foreword by); Elaine Showalter (Introduction by, Notes by)
$43.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, featuring a foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation A Penguin Vitae Edition "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one ...Show more
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - The Authoritative Text with Original Illustrations (HB) by Mark Twain; Paul Baender (Editor); John C. Gerber (Foreword by); Richard A. Watson (Created by); Victor Fischer (Created by)
$44.95 AUD
Category: Classics
A beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project.This definitive edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, one of the world's best-loved books, was the first version since the original publicat ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves'. From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman' ...Show more