We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Popular Penguins by Shirley Jackson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A beautiful new Vintage Classics edition to celebrate the 15th anniversary, and 10 million copies sold worldwide, of this wise, blackly funny, radically imaginative novel 'A superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy' Ian McEwan It was 7 minutes after midnight ...Show more
Tales of Norse Mythology (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by H.A. Guerber
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions
Scandinavians of the Viking Age explored the mysteries of life through their sagas. Folklorist Helene Adeline Guerber brings to life the gods and goddesses, giants and dwarves, and warriors and monsters of these stories in Tales of Norse Mythology. Ranging from the comic to the tragic, these legends tel ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Pride and PrejudiceBy Jane AustenElizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: ...Show more
Measure for Measure (No Fear Shakespeare) by William Shakepseare
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Measure for Measure on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.Each No Fear Shakespeare contains:The complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday languageA ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Katherine Mansfield's short stories revolutionised the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. They range from short, sharp studies to longer, richer tales, and 15 unfinished stories published after her death.
They're a Weird Mob: Text Classics by Nino Culotta
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Just off the boat from Italy, Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he's never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking. They're a Weird Mobis an hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience in Menzies-era Australia, by a writer with a brilliant ear fo ...Show more
Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition by Joseph Heller
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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
Twelve Years a Slave (New Edition) by Solomon Northup; Sandra M. Grayson (Foreword by); Ber Anena (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Foundations of Black Science Fiction Ser.
With a new introduction, Northup's memoir reveals the living truth of slavery, poverty and racism in a world set apart from elite metropolitan lifestyles. The 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed an unforgivable sin. Everyone knows that her little daughter, Pearl, is the product of an illicit affair but no one knows the identity of Pearl's father. Hester's refusal to name him brings ...Show more
Dreams: A Literary Anthology: William Blake, Charlotte Bronte, Sigmund Freud, Homer, Helen Keller and Others by BOB BLAISDELL
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The mysterious power of dreams has always fascinated humanity. Theories of interpretation, meaning, and symbolism have varied, yet their intrigue remains eternal. This captivating anthology of dreams represents the experiences of great authors and characters as well as their nighttime wanderings, awaken ...Show more