The Evenings by Gerard Reve
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A modern masterpiece of one of the most important Dutch authors of all time, voted the best Dutch novel of the twentieth century 'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it'. Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, t ...Show more
Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman
$27.00 AUD
Category: Classics
The collected stories of an award-winning, modern classic American writer who has been compared to Alice Munro, John Updike - and even Anton Chekhov. 'The best short story writer in the world' - Susan Hill 'This book is a spectacular literary revelation' -Sunday Times Tenderly, incisively, Edith Pearlma ...Show more
Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics
The only novel written by one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century. 'Zweig's fictional masterpiece' - The Guardian 'An intoxicating, morally shaking read... A real reminder of what fiction can do best' - Ali Smith 'It's just a masterpiece. When I read it I thought, how is it that I don't ...Show more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of a boy known as Siddhartha from the Indian subcontinent during the time of Lord Buddha. In a very simple prose, Hesse has conveyed a very profound message for all seekers. A brahmin boy follows his heart and goes through vari ...Show more
Emily Fox-Seton - Being the Making of a Marchioness and the Methods of Lady Walderhurst by Frances Burnett; C. Williams (Illustrator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Classics
This two-part adult fairytale by the author of The Secret Garden combines a charming Cinderella tale with an ironic look at class structure and the Edwardian marriage market in turn-of-the-century London. Emily Fox-Seton is a simple but good-hearted woman struggling to make ends meet while maintaining t ...Show more
Letters to a Young Painter by Damion Searls (Translator); Rachel Corbett (Introduction by)
$17.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Never before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke's fascinating Letters to a Very Young Painter , written toward the end of his life between 1920 and 1926, is a surprising companion to his infamous Letters to a Young Poet , earlier correspondence from 1902 to 1908. While the latter has become a g ...Show more
Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time Vol 1 by Marcel Proust
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.The definitive translation of a truly great French novel - Proust's beautiful, atmospheric story of memory and loss.This is the first volume of In Search ...Show more
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford
$40.00 AUD
Category: Classics
This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German château for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful ...Show more
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
On the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In A Legacy, Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds - the wealthy bourgeois life of the Merzes in Berlin and the aristocratic eccentricity of the von Felden dynasty in rural ...Show more
Meditations by J. Krishnamurti
$22.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
A classic collection of excerpts from one of the great spiritual leaders of the twentieth century--now in the newly designed Shambhala Pocket Library series. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) went from his origins in a small south Indian village to become one of the great spiritual teachers of the twen ...Show more
Hill by Jean Giono
$28.00 AUD
Category: Classics
An NYRB Classics Original Deep in Provence, a century ago, four stone houses perch on a hillside. Wildness presses in from all sides. Beyond a patchwork of fields, a mass of green threatens to overwhelm the village. The animal world a miming cat, a malevolent boar displays a mind of its own. The four ho ...Show more