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
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
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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
Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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
Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
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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
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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Category: Classics
A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Her memoirs conjure up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and ...Show more
Time Machine (Macmillan Collector's Library) by H. G. Wells; Mark Bould (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in ma ...Show more
Snow Falling on Cedars: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by David Guterson
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Category: Classics
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Africa's Tarnished Name (Mini Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
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Category: Classics | Series: Mini Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others. Electrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature.
Tragedy of Macbeth: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Indeed, for 250 years - until early this century - it was performed with grand operatic additions set to baroque music. In his introduction Nicholas Brooke relates the play's changing fortunes to changes with ...Show more
The Last Man by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Essential Gothic, SF and Dark Fantasy Ser.
From the author of Frankenstein comes this apocalyptic tale of a world devastated by plague. Mary Shelley's 1826 roman à clef takes place in the late 21st century, as England's last king abdicates and a charmed circle of idealistic political reformers plunges into a maelstrom of war, pestilence, and ana ...Show more
All Quiet on the Western Front (Collector's Library) by Erich Maria Remarque
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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
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
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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