Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
This is Mark Twain's description of life on the Mississippi River, with observations and anecdotes about the culture and society along the river valley. It includes character sketches, historical facts, information and reminiscences of Twain's boyhood and experiences as a steam-boat pilot. Part travel b ...Show more
ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins by C. E. W. Bean
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: War Popular Penguins
The First World War was the blooding of the young Australian nation. Five years after Australia's overwhelming response to Britain's declaration of war, nearly a fifth of the 330,000 Australians who served overseas lay dead. Charles Bean witnessed it all. Appointed official war correspondent with the Au ...Show more
Generals Die in Bed: War Popular Penguins by Charles Yale Harrison
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
All war is hell. But for troops serving in World War I, it was the bloodiest trench warfare ever known. GENERALS DIE IN BED is a first-hand account of one young man catapulted from new recruit to walking wounded on the Western Front.From day one, he's surrounded by mud and fear. Artillery whistles down ...Show more
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: In Search of Lost Time
One hundred years have passed since Marcel Proust published the first volume of what was to become a seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. In the intervening century his famously compelling novel has never been out of print and has been translated into dozens of languages. English-language r ...Show more
English Fairy Tales (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Arthur Rackham
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, ...Show more
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just society. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system rouse his fellow men from their political quietism. A masterpi ...Show more
The Odyssey by Halls-Bascomb Professor of Classics Emeritus Barry B Powell (University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA University of Wisconsin University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
$35.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Odysseus-soldier, trickster, and everyman-is one of the most recognizable characters in world literature. His arduous, ten-year journey home after the Trojan War, the subject of Homer's The Odyssey, is the most accessible tale to survive from ancient Greece, and its impact is still felt today across ma ...Show more
Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
This is an official tie-in edition to accompany Richard Ayoade's brilliant new film based on Dostoyevsky's deliciously dark and slyly funny novel. The Double stars Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) and Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre) with support from Chris O'Dowd, Sally Hawkins, Paddy Consi ...Show more
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces ...Show more
All Quiet on the Western Front (Collector's Library) by Erich Maria Remarque
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
This First World War classic novel is written in the first person by a young German soldier, Paul Bauer. Only eighteen when he is pressured by his family, friends and society in general, to enlist and fight at the front, he enters the army with six school friends, each filled with optimistic and patriot ...Show more
Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
$23.95 AUD
Category: Classics
'A writer touched by genius' - "The New Criterion". 'Between Kipling and Fleming stands John Buchan ...the father of the modern spy thriller' - Christopher Hitchens. 'Eat your heart out, Jason Bourne' - "Evening Standard". Recalled from active service on the Western Front, Richard Hannay is sent underco ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" portrays Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, providing an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Ex ...Show more