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The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, this book is not only a classic avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literature, art, drama and philosophy, but also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft.
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favourite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaption. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of D'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the Kings Muske ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in ma ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regime ...Show more
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.' In TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG, the l ...Show more
The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With the androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, this title takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.
The War of the Worlds (Vintage Classics Sci-Fi range) by H. G. Wells
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The War of the Worlds By H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds describes the fictional 1895 invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars who use laser-like Heat-Rays, chemical weapons, and mechanical three-legged ''fighting machines'' that could potentially be viewed as precursors to the tank. After defeating the r ...Show more
The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Ser.
The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Regarded by many as her greatest work, The Waves is also s ...Show more
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'I did not believe in ghosts?Few attend Mrs Alice Drablow?s funeral, and not one blood relative amongst them. There are undertakers with shovels, of course, a local official who would rather be anywhere else, and one Mr Arthur Kipps, solicitor from London. He is to spend the night in Eel Marsh House, th ...Show more
The Years (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
$28.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL, The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and ...Show more
To The Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel's opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever. But time passes, bri ...Show more
Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Greene's fine sense of humor is displayed in this warm and far-reaching comic novel, Travels with My Aunt, a bestseller when it appeared originally. At his mother's funeral, Henry Pulling, a stuffy, retired bank manager with an interest in dahlias, meets his Aunt Augusta. The indomitable Aunt Augusta p ...Show more