The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics S.
Cooper undertakes a "hazardous experiment" of resurrecting one of his most popular characters, for he had killed off Bumppo in his previous incarnation. This book is noted as a classic account of the American wilderness.
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortune ...Show more
Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes; The Persians by Aeschylus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The S ...Show more
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Jean Giono's beautiful allegorical tale is legendary. Written in the 1950's, its message was ahead of its time, inspiring readers to rediscover the harmonies of the countryside and prevent its willful destruction. The narrator, journeying by foot across the barren plains of the lower Alps, has his thirs ...Show more
Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
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Category: Classics
A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomt ...Show more
Youth: WITH The Heart of Darkness: AND The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics
Conrad's aim was 'by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel ...before all, to make you see'. "Heart of Darkness", his exploration of European colonialism in Africa and of elusive human values, embodies more profoundly than almost any other modern fiction the difficulty of 'see ...Show more
Beowulf: A Verse Translation by Michael Alexander (Translator, Introduction by); Penguin Group (UK) Staff
$12.95 AUD
$17.99 (28% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Epic poetry, English (Old); Monsters/ Poetry; Dragons/ Poetry; Dragons; Monsters; Scandinavia; Poetry / Anci ...Show more
Notes from Underground and Grand Inquisition by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics
The Physiology of Taste by Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin; Anne Drayton (Introduction by, Foreword by, Translator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Food | Series: Classics Ser.
Brillat-Savarin's unique, exuberant collection of dishes, experiences, reflections, history and philosophy raised gastronomy to an art form. First published in France in 1825, this remarkable book reflected a new era in French cuisine- the advent of the restaurant, which gave the bourgeoisie the opportu ...Show more
The Confidence-man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville
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Category: Classics
Onboard the Fidele, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous guises - from a legless beggar and a worldly businessman to a collector for charitable causes and a cosmopolitan' gentleman, w ...Show more
Le Rochefoucauld - Maxims by Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
This volume includes "Family Happiness"; "The Kreutzer Sonata"; "The Devil" and "Father Sergius". The four stories are all about love, but they take very different attitudes towards it. Tolstoy knows that his readers have fallen in love and also, often, fallen out of it; they have wanted to kill their l ...Show more