Stoner by John Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet publication in the US, Stoner is finally finding the ...Show more
Midnight's Children (Vintage Classics) by Salman Rushdie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Classics
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of a modern classic and winner of 'The Best of the Booker' - the best novel from Booker Prize history.Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz- dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. Travelling upriver to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, w ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. 'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!' Described by Dickens as 'the best story I have written', "A Tale of Two Cities" interweaves thrilling historical dr ...Show more
To The Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel's opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever. But time passes, bri ...Show more
Too Much of Life - Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); Robin Patterson (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life 'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Between 1967 and 1977, the internationally reno ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A new edition of Orwell's savage satire of the Soviet Revolution, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor. First published in 1945, just as the allied forces had begun to parcel up the post-war world, Orwell's satire of the Soviet Revolution was instantly acclaimed as a Cold War classic ...Show more
My Brilliant Career: Text Classics by Miles Franklin
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
"This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither is it a novel, but simply a yarn - a real yarn. Oh!" Written with all the high spirits of youth, My Brilliant Career is the unforgettable tal ...Show more
Aesop's Illustrated Fables (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Aesop
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
Aesop's Illustrated Fables features more than 400 fables, beautifully illustrated with engravings and color plates by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane and Ernest Griset. It includes all of the classic fables whose titles and morals have become part of our common cultural vocabulary, among them The Boy Who C ...Show more
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
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Code of the Woosters (Jeeves & Wooster) by P. G. Wodehouse
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Jeeves & Wooster
A Jeeves and Wooster novel When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn't expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there - nor to be instructed by her to steal some silver. But purloining the antique cow cr ...Show more
Hamlet (Staged: the origins of YA's greatest tropes) by Shakespeare, William
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Staged Ser.
STAGED- Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.' When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, discovers his father was murdered, he swears vengeance against the killer- his father's brother, Claudius, who has married Hamlet's mother and tak ...Show more