The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A 20th century classic of European literature: a meditation on the Austro-Hungarian Empire through the prism of three generations of the Trotta family.
Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima; Michael Gallagher (translator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The Sea of Fertility 2
"Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor's rightful power. As the conspiracy unfolds and unravel ...Show more
The Secret Agent: With an Introduction by Giles Foden by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: With an Introduction by Giles Foden
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODEN London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, who live in fear of the terrorists in their midst. One such terrorist is Verloc. He is the secret a ...Show more
Fifty-Two Stories by Anton Chekhov
$50.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their superb renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories. These stories, which span the full arc of his career, rev ...Show more
Italian Hours by Henry James
$28.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Henry James was a renowned observer of European culture, both in his fiction and in his life. In particular, he loved Italy, visiting it 14 times and setting several of his novels in the country. Between 1873 and 1909 he also wrote numerous essays and travelogues that were ultimately collected into one ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'. In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? Socia ...Show more
Tale Of Genji, The Everyman's Library by Murasaki Shikibu; Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The Tale of Genji By Murasaki Shikibu In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone. P ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
$40.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Tolstoy's epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition from Penguin Classics. Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
$15.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.' In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just set down; but how fa ...Show more
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki by Chomei, Yoshida Kenko, Kenko, Chomei And Kenko Yoshida
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics
These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hojoki, Chomei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny hut in the mountains, contemplating the impermanence of ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$28.00 AUD
Category: Classics
An old man and his childhood sweetheart are united for the first time resulting in the consummation of a n amor interruptus that spans half a century. This uplifting love story is set on the Columbian coast in the early 20th century '
After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. And now life seems more complicated every day. Her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have b ...Show more