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1984 by George Orwell
$39.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has ...Show more
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque; Norman Stone (Introduction by); Brian Murdoch (Translator)
$36.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of the classic tale of a young German soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches, widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time. When twenty-year-old Paul Bäumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during ...Show more
Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that have been unavailable for decades. When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began ...Show more
Dubliners by JOYCE JAMES
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Dubliners is a landmark in modern literature, and one of the twentieth century's finest collections of short stories. In its remarkable portrait of a city and its people, it dramatises ordinary life in the modern world. Together, the stories form one interwoven tapestry which provides a rich and subtle ...Show more
Giovanni's Room (U.S. HB) by James Baldwin
$34.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
GoodBye to All That by Robert Graves; Miranda Seymour (Introduction by)
$41.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of one of the best and most famous memoirs of the conflict. Good-bye to All That was published a decade after the end of the first World War, as the poet and novelist Robert Graves was preparing to leave England for good. Th ...Show more
His Dark Materials - The Golden Compass/ The Subtle Knife/ The Amber Spyglass by PULLMAN PHILIP
$45.00 AUD
$52.95 (15% off)
Category: Childrens | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
The only hardcover omnibus of the best-selling and award-winning fantasy trilogy, in a Contemporary Classics edition. Philip Pullman's trilogy is a masterpiece that transcends genre and appeals to readers of all ages. His heroine, Lyra, is an orphan living in a parallel universe in which science, theo ...Show more
Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Lolita" tells the story of aging Hubert Humbert who has an obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze. It is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. All in all, "Lolita" is filled with awe and exhilaration, along ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks by Angela Carter; Joan Acocella (Introduction by)
$42.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
In The Bloody Chamber, Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Riding's grandmother is stoned to death as a witch; a young music student is swept off her feet in Paris by a middle-aged aristocrat and transported to h ...Show more
The Bookshop: WITH The Gate of Angels AND The Blue Flow by Penelope Fitzgerald
$36.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. She began her writing career in 1975 at the age of fifty-nine, and over the next two decades she published three biographies, nine novels, and a c ...Show more
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
$49.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of "T ...Show more
The Collected Works by Kahlil Gibran
$47.95 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) For the first time, all the major works of this beloved writer are gathered together in one hardcover volume. Poet, artist, and mystic, Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiec ...Show more