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
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
The Odyssey (Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions) by Homer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Flexibound Editions Ser.
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
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
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling: First Nations Classics by Larissa Behrendt, Fiona Foley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Aboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island off the Queensland coast in 1836. In this deeply personal book, Behrendt uses Eliza's tale as a s ...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 Lord Of The Rings by J R R Tolkien
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Lord of the Rings Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he ...Show more
Eva Luna: Popular Penguins by Isabel Allende
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In her opulent novel, Eva Luna, Isabel Allende uses exquisite prose to describe the survival of a young Latin American woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love, during a time of political unrest in South America. Born in the back room of the mansion where her mother is a servan ...Show more