A Lifetime on Clouds (Text Classics) by Gerald Murnane
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
Adrian Sherd is a teenage boy in Melbourne of the 1950s - the last years before television and the family car changed suburbia forever. Earnest and isolated, tormented by his hormones and his religious devotion, Adrian dreams of elaborate orgies with American film stars, and of marrying his sweetheart a ...Show more
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
$9.95 AUD
Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas 2 | Reading Level: good-very good
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you t ...Show more
Emma (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jane Austen
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Emma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own he ...Show more
The Prophet (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Kahlil Gibran
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The original self-help book- bestselling The Prophet takes the reader on an unparalleled spiritual and philosophical journeyThe time has come for the revered Prophet to leave Orphalese. Before he departs, people gather around him and ask him to speak his wisdom. Divided into twenty-eight chapters coveri ...Show more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Clothbound Classic) by Mark Twain
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Mark Twain's great American masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresq ...Show more
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm; Jack Zipes; Andrea Dezsö
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majo ...Show more
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil. The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the author himself in the brilliant Attempt at a Self-Criticism, which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most ...Show more
Underground by Haruki Murakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
"In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day. He also interviews members and ex-members ...Show more
My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson
$2.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
'It's coming - the postponeless Creature' Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives r ...Show more
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: good
"Just before dawn one winter s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea- Gibreel Farishta, India s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices. Washed up, alive, on an English beac ...Show more
Little Women and Other Novels (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Louisa May Alcott
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
This beautiful collectible edition presents three novels from one of the most beloved American authors: Louisa May Alcott. It includes her most famous and cherished classic, Little Women, about the lives of four sisters in Civil War-era America, as well as its sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys.
The Story of King Arthur and his Knights (Leather Bound) by PYLE, HOWARD
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Ch
When the young Arthur pulls the embedded sword from the stone, his future as the King of England is foretold. This imaginative retelling of the classic legends recounts the story of Arthur's formation of the Knights of the Round Table, his securing of the enchanted sword Excalibur, his wooing of the Lad ...Show more