The Lover (from US) by Marguerite Duras
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics
An international bestseller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover" has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. Set in the pre-war Indochina of Marguerite Duras' childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumu ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson
$65.95 AUD
Category: Classics
The Odyssey is a classic poem written by Homer that consists of 12.110 verses. It is unique already in that it has reached our days in its original form. This poem is a genuine revelation of the poetic thought of ancient Hellas....After the Trojan War, most of the survived Greek leaders returned by sea ...Show more
Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'Interplanetary, quite extraordinary . . . awash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty' Financial Times 'One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century' New Yorker Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be ...Show more
The Fall by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Jean-Baptiste Clamence - refined, handsome, forty, a former successful lawyer - is in turmoil. Over severa ...Show more
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: Popular Penguins by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
This brutal glimpse of Russia under Stalin shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibilities of a nail, a piece of string or a single match in a time where survival is all. Enter a ...Show more
The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics
One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate and Stalingrad. "The People Immortal is a remarkable novel that illuminates the terrible realities of Barbarossa and the banal horror of warfare with incomparable understanding and insight" JONATHAN DIMBLEBY "There are always good reas ...Show more
Classic Ghost Stories by Various
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A Vintage Classics selection of haunting tales by some of the masters of nineteenth-century literature. Includes spine-chilling stories by Charles Dickens, M.R. James, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle and E. Nesbit.As the winter nights draw in and you settle in front of a cosy fire, it's the perfect time ...Show more
Mrs Bridge by Evan S. Connell
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Evan S. Connell's "Mrs Bridge" is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century, influencing books such as Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections". This edition has an introduction by Joshua Ferris, author of "Then We Came to the End" ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithThis candid portrayal of a woman who refuses to accept her allotted role as wife and mother caused an outcry wh ...Show more
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, whom he fell in love with during one of his stays in Mexico -a country that he frequently visited - by the middle of the fifties. Wrapped in a spiritual atmos ...Show more
Where All Good Flappers Go - Essential Stories of the Jazz Age by David M. Earle (Editor); F. Scott Fitzgerald (Contribution by); Zelda Fitzgerald (Contribution by); Anita Loos (Contribution by); Dorothy Parker (Contribution by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
"I believe in the flapper as an artist in her particular field, the art of being - being young, being lovely." -- Zelda Fitzgerald A sparkling new collection of "flapper fiction" stories featuring the iconic women who defined the Jazz Age Edited and introduced by David M. Earle Vivacious, ch ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Timeless Classics) by Jane Austen
$59.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics Ser.
Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a platform from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness among the British middle-class of the late eighteenth century. The novels included in the collection - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Par ...Show more