Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics
The Great War changes everything. In this epic tale, spanning over a decade, war turns the world of privileged, English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens upside down. It forces him to question everything he holds dear - social order, morality, marriage and loyalty. And it rocks the very foundations of Eng ...Show more
The Great Gatsby (Gift Edition) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby?s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he?s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy dur ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
$5.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf's own joyful holidays of her youth. But as t ...Show more
The ANZACS: War Popular Penguins by Patsy Adam-Smith
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
Gallipoli was the final resting place for thousands of young Australians. Death struck so fast there was no time for escape or burial. and when Gallipoli was over there was the misery of the European Campaign. Patsy Adam-Smith read over 8000 diaries and letters to write her acclaimed best-seller about t ...Show more
Flesh in Armour: War Popular Penguins by Mann Leonard
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Category: Classics | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
Nearly 420 000 Australians enlisted during the First World War, and more than half were killed, wounded or captured. the conflict was the most costly in Australia's history. In the fates of his protagonists in his acclaimed Flesh in Armour - one dies valiantly, one dies in an abject and mentally unhinge ...Show more
Haunted Life by Jack Kerouac
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
In 1944, twenty-two year old Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript called The Haunted Life. It turned up thirteen years later in a Columbia University dormitory, and then in 2002, at a Sotheby's auction house. Now, 70 years after Kerouac wrote it, his second novel will be published for the first ...Show more
The Storm by Defoe Daniel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Storm By Daniel Defoe, 1704 The Storm relates the events of a week-long storm that hit London starting on 24 November and reaching its height on the night of 26/27 November 1703. It is known as the Great Storm of 1703, and it was described by Defoe as "The Greatest, the Longest in Duration, the wide ...Show more
Confucius - The Analects by Confucius
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Analects are a collection of Confucius's sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom, self ...Show more
The Sacred Oath (Three Kingdoms #1) by Luo Guanzhung
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
This exciting new translation will appeal to modern readers who find the twists and turns of "Game of Thrones" so compelling. "The Three Kingdoms" is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty, when Chi ...Show more
Beowulf - A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell by J R R Tolkien
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the ...Show more