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The Enormous Turnip by Ian Beck
$18.95 AUD
Category: Fiction (5 to 8 years) | Series: An\Oxford Storybook Ser.
There once was a little old man who loved looking after his vegetables - they were his pride and joy. His secret of success, he thought, was that he whispered to his seedlings every night. "Come on, you little seedlings, grow, grow!" His wife thought he was a fool and believed it was her watering that a ...Show more
The Eustace Diamonds (#3 Palliser Novels) by Anthony Trollope
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'She liked lies...To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the lessons which she had learned, a necessity in a woman' Lizzie Eustace is young, beautiful, and widowed. Her determination to hold on to the Eustace family's diamond necklace in the face of legal harassm ...Show more
The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott
$20.95 AUD
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 Quee ...Show more
The Karamazov Brothers (PB) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Ignat Avsey (Edited and translated by
$26.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyos ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes ...Show more
The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob: WITH Brother Jacob by George Eliot
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.' The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the b ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Shewring's superb prose translation comes as close to the spirit of the original Greek as our language will allow.
The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks
$38.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford Book of Prose/Verse Ser.
Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by Arthur Quiller-Couch and selected anew in 1972 by Helen ...Show more
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
$19.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Oxford Landmark Science Ser.
Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. This is a ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to Cheese by Catherine Donnelly
$80.95 AUD
Category: Food | Series: Oxford Companions
The discovery of cheese is a narrative at least 8,000 years old, dating back to the Neolithic era. Yet, after all of these thousands of years we are still finding new ways to combine the same four basic ingredients - milk, bacteria, salt, and enzymes - into new and exciting products with vastly differen ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature by M.C. Howatson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference
The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its literary heritage. It not only presents the reader with all the essential facts about the authors, tales, and characters from ancient myths and literature, b ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
$99.95 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Oxford Companions
The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature - from writers, their works, and the historical and cul ...Show more