Romulus, My Father: Text Classics by Raimond Gaita
$12.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Romulus Gaita fled Yugoslavia aged thirteen, and came to Australia with his wife and their son soon after World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy's life, but Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary and moving tale to tell of growing up with his father in country Victoria. Romulus, My Father is t ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
$17.95 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look cover for Orwell's timeless satire. 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs ...Show more
Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Anon, Jeffrey Gantz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle f ...Show more
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope & Odysseus: Text Myth Series by Margaret Atwood
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Myth | Reading Level: very good
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and m ...Show more
Snow Queen and Other Winter Tales (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Hans Christian Andersen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" has delighted readers for more than a century and inspired numerous adaptations. This anthology gathers 100 tales that share the winter theme of Andersen's classic. In addition to stories by Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, it includes works by Dickens, Louisa ...Show more
Count of Monte Cristo (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Alexandre Dumas
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Ch teau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of ...Show more
An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant
$10.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature of reality. In these writings he investigates human progress, civilization, morality and why, to be truly enlightened, we must all have the freedo ...Show more
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: good
From ratty attic to Auschwitz and back again, Mother Night is the confessions of Howard W Campbell Jr - an American, a notorious Nazi propagandist, and a US counter-spy - not a moral man. This mournful, macabre and diabolically funny tale of unsung heroism uses acrid humour to underline the horror of it ...Show more
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
Jerome's delightful novel has kept readers smiling for years and his prose has found a perfect partner in Vic Reeves's witty illustrations, exclusive to Vintage Classics. What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmore ...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
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the hea ...Show more