Bleak House (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics
'The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself'. 'Jarndyce and Jardyce' is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many different individuals have found their fortunes caught up in it. Esther Summerso ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry Carlisle (Translator)
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
In The Idiot, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become riva ...Show more
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Classics
"The General in his Labyrinth" is the compelling tale of Simon Bolivar, a hero who has been forgotten and whose power is fading, retracing his steps down the Magdalena River by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera". "It was ...Show more
ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins by C. E. W. Bean
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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
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to liveAccompanying a 6-part series on BBC One from the makers of War and Peace, and starring Dominic West, Lily Collins, David Oyelowo and Olivia Coleman, this edition of Les Miserables also has a foreword from screenwriter Andrew Davies (War and Peace, Pride an ...Show more
Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not) by José Rizal; León Ma. Guerrero (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A scorching expose of the Spanish government's corruption and abuses of power, this novel is famed as a catalyst to the Philippine Revolution. Noli Me Tangere was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism written from the point of view of the oppressed. Its passi ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Upon the ground around the body were the footprints of a gigantic hound When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead, his face distorted with shock and horror, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are faced with a sinister and difficult puzzle. A fearsome creature stalks the wild and barren hills of Dartmoor. Is ...Show more
Mansfield Park (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Jane Austen; Judith John (Contribution by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the mo ...Show more
The Essence of Progress and Poverty by Henry George; John Dewey (Foreword by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
In this concise text, the distinguished American philosopher John Dewey compiled excerpts from the massive Progress and Poverty to provide those unfamiliar with Henry George's work with the essence of the author's thinking on economics. In his Foreword, Dewey noted, "It would require less than the finge ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Drop Caps) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with "Penguin DropCaps", a new series of twenty-six collectable hardcover editions with a gorgeous type cover for each letter of the alphabet. Featuring lettering by Jessica Hische, a superstar in the world of type and illustration, whose work has appeared every ...Show more
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The child of parents who divorce, remarry and then embark on adulterous affairs, Maisie Farange survives by her intelligence and spirit. For all its sombre theme of childhood innocence exposed to a corrupted adult world, this novel is one of James's comic masterpieces. The outrageous behaviour of the ch ...Show more
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