Discourse on Method and Related Writings by RENE DESCARTES, René Descartes
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. It includes "Discourse on Method", the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scien ...Show more
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In the PENGUIN CLASSICS series, this is the story of Mr Pooter, an office clerk and upright family man in a dull 1880s suburb. His diary is a wonderful portrait of the class system and inherent snobbishness of the suburban middle classes. It contains all the original illustrations, a critical introducti ...Show more
Theaetetus by Plato
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of knowledge itself, in a debate with the geometrician Theodorus and his young follower Theaetetus. Their dialogue covers many questions, such as: is knowledge purely sub ...Show more
Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has been reprieved by the distant monarch they ignore the Que ...Show more
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Welcome to hell. On Good Friday evening in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquainta ...Show more
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony by Henry Handel Richardson
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics S.
Set in Australia during the gold-mining boom, this trilogy is comprised of the novels "Australia Felix", "The Way Home" and "Ultima Thule". It follows the fortunes of Mahony, a man increasingly dissatisfied with his ordered life.
The Nun by Denis Diderot
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In 1758 Diderot's friend the Marquis de Croismare became interested in the cause celebre of a nun who was appealing to be allowed to leave a Paris convent. Less than a year later, in an affectionate attempt to trick his friend, Diderot created this masterpiece a fictitious set of desperate and pleading ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 5: The Captive & The Fugitive by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser.
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In the two novels - "The Captive" and "The Fugitive" - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's apartment in Paris with his lover, Albertine. However, this is far from an idyllic st ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 2: Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser.
Within a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love affair. When Proust's adolescent narrator travels from Paris to the sunny seaside town of Balbec he meets an intriguing set of new acquaintances who provide him with both friendship and entertainment. Most significantly of all he m ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 4: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In "Sodom and Gomorrah", Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century but also exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser.
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provi ...Show more
The Book of the Courtier by Baldesar Castiglione
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In "The Book of the Courtier" (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court. In a lively series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of Urbino, his speakers discuss qualities of noble behav ...Show more