Selected Stories: Text Classics by Katherine Mansfield
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
Here in one volume are twenty-three of the finest stories by Katherine Mansfield. Considered one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century, Mansfield was from a young age heavily influenced by Anton Chekhov, a master of the form. This new selection, with an introduction by the novelist ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter (Collins Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
Inspired by recent current cultural movements (The Women's March, #MeToo), and the new wave of feminism, these new releases of classic books feature strong female protagonists who must navigate difficult situations involving class and power, love and loss, sex and family, independence and societal norms ...Show more
The Prophet: Annotated Edition with illustrations by Kahlil Gibran
$11.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
"Work is love made visible." - Khalil Gibran Filled with wisdom, written in simple, poetic language, The Prophet is a book for all ages, which remains amazingly relevant to our times. After living in the city of Orphalese for 12 years, a prophet is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He i ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
With a new introduction by Professor John Sutherland, this edition takes a fresh look at one of the great works of the twentieth century.Animal Farm is a moral animal fable written to highlight the weakness of humankind, and satirize the rule of Stalin, whose rise through revolution ended in totalitaria ...Show more
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, am ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Based on two lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the founda ...Show more
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi; translated by John Hooper & Anna Kraczyna
$21.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A revelatory new annotated edition of the most translated Italian book in the world -- which has now spawned two new movie versions: a Netflix animated version co-directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro (voiced by Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, and Tilda Swinton) and a Disney+ live-action version ...Show more
Frida Kahlo And My Left Leg by Roger Scruton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics
A New York Times-bestselling author's personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabilities of Frida Kahlo shaped her life as an amputee. At first sight of Frida Kahlo's painting The Two Fridas, Emily Rapp Black felt a connection with the artist. An amputee from childhood, Rapp Black grew u ...Show more
The Window Seat (First Nations Classics) by Archie Weller, Ernie Dingo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Runner-up for the inaugural Vogel Award in 1980, Archie Weller is a master storyteller. In these short stories, take a seat and rethink what it means to be Australian.Since Archie Weller was runner-up for the first Vogel Award in 1980 for his novel The Day of the Dog, he has become an important voice in ...Show more
Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers by Joseph Heller
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Pit And The Pendulum And Other Tales (Oxford World Classics) by Poe Edgar Allan
$32.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none'. Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, "Oliver Twist" features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction - the treacherous g ...Show more