Adam Bede by George Eliot
$10.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, whose only delights are her baubles - and the delusion that the careless Captain Donnithorne may ask for her hand.
Phineas Finn, The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope
$28.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The second of Trollope's Palliser novels tells of the career of a hot-blooded middle-class politician whose sexual energies bring him much success with women.
Le Morte D'arthur Volume 2 by Thomas Malory
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Volume two of "Le Morte D'Arthur", Sir Thomas Malory's powerful and elegiac version of the Arthurian legend, recounts the adventures of Sir Tristram de Liones and the treachery of Sir Mordred, and follows Sir Launcelot's quest for The Holy Grail, his fatally divided loyalties, and his great, forbidden l ...Show more
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1 by Thomas Malory
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Category: Classics | Series: Le\Morte D'Arthur Ser.
Presents an evocative version of the Arthurian legend. This book describes Arthur's ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guenever, the treachery of Morgan le Fay and the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else." The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That ...Show more
Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Classics | Series: American Library
Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for sp ...Show more
The Portable Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest are accompanied by Wilde's prison memoirs, poems, and selected correspondence.
The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Geraldine McCaughrean
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual test of moral endurance, Homer's ancient Greek epic "The Odyssey" is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in "Penguin Classics". When Robert Fagles' translation of "T ...Show more
The Three Musketeers (Vintage Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics
"Pure swashbuckling pleasure". ("Daily Telegraph"). The young D'Artagnan travels to Paris determined to join King Louis XIII's elite guards. Hot-headed and raring to prove himself, D'Artagnan challenges three strangers to a duel. These strangers are none other than the daring band of Musketeers - Portho ...Show more
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
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Category: Classics
"Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye, one of the most grotesque characters of Faulkner's imagination. A compelling, shocking tale of perve ...Show more
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
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Category: Classics
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more