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100 Artists' Manifestos - From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Danchev Alex
$26.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism, Stridentism, Cannibalism and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architect ...Show more
84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
$20.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
84, Charing Cross Road with introduction by Anne Bancroft. 'A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with [humankind].'
A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David; Clarissa Dickson Wright (Foreword by)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Food | Series: Classics Ser.
Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David's passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk. In bleak postwar Great Britain, when basics were rationed and fresh food a fantasy, David set abo ...Show more
A Christmas Carol: A Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classic by Charles Dickens
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
The classic seasonal tale of self-discovery, with 80 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. This classic seasonal tale of self-discovery has become one of Charles Dickens's most famous and best-loved works. On Christmas Eve, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by the ghost of his former business p ...Show more
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writingscollects stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings. This Penguin Classics is edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Slater.Since it was first published in 1843 A Christmas Carol ...Show more
A Christmas Carol and Other Stories (HB Clothbound) by Charles Dickens
$22.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
'Bah,'said Scrooge, 'Humbug.'But that was before he was presented with visions of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come, which gave him a whole new lease of life:'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
$18.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
A Confession and Other Religious Writings by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In "Confession" Tolstoy poses the question: Is there any meaning in my life that will not be destroyed by my death? In 1879 the fifty-year-old author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" came to believe that he had accomplished nothing in life. Either of these magnificant novels would have assured Tol ...Show more
A Different Sound - Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers by Elizabeth Bowen; Daphne du Maurier; Elizabeth Taylor; Lucy Scholes (Editor)
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Ireland--many being published in America for the first time These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and pro ...Show more
A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a stray dog and performs on it a human transplant - with disastrous consequences.
A Doll's House + Hedda Gabler + An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
$24.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: World Classics Ser.
A Doll's House (1879) was Ibsen's first international success, which ''exploded like a bomb into contemporary life. Hedda Gabler (1890) is now one of his most popular plays, but greeted at first with bewilderment and outrage (''The play is simply a bad escape of moral sewage-gas'' Pictorial World). Also ...Show more
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social ...Show more