The Nature of Things by Lucretius
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The acclaimed new translation of the classic poem at the heart of Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death ...Show more
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better. Published as a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, it differs from that great work in every relevant respect. Where Burke uses the language of the governing classes, Paine ...Show more
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
$22.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Bedtime Classics: charmingly illustrated board book editions of perennial favorites, simplified for the youngest readers Bedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character-driven narratives and colorful illustration. Designed to be the perfect one minu ...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
Black Beauty (Puffin Clothbound Classics) by Anna Sewell; Meg Rosoff (Introduction by)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Black Beauty spends his youth in a loving home, surrounded by friends and cared for by his owners. But when circumstances change, he learns that not all humans are so kind. Passed from hand to hand, Black Beauty witnesses love and cruelty, wealth and poverty, friendship and hardship . . . Will the hands ...Show more
Treasure Island (Clothbound) by Robert Louis Stevenson
$28.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Complete and unabridged paperback edition. Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X," schoone ...Show more
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
A comedy of errors, this title portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties.
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. 'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates... Were it not for shadows, there would be no ...Show more
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Great Plains Trilogy Ser.
Set in rural Nebraska, Willa Cather's My Ántonia is both the intricate story of a powerful friendship and a brilliant portrayal of the lives of rural pioneers in the late-nineteenth century. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foil ...Show more
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
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Category: Classics | Series: Great Plains Trilogy Ser.
O Pioneers by Willa CatherThe first of her renowned prairie novels--a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." When Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death, she falls under the spell of the rich, f ...Show more
Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Two priests are despatched from Rome to New Mexico to reinvigorate Catholicism among the locals, knowing little of the challenges that await them. They face a journey characterised by drudgery, danger and a vast, unending, often barren landscape. Over almost four decades they encounter a rich variety of ...Show more
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
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Category: Classics | Series: Great Plains Trilogy Ser.
The Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather. It is generally considered to be the second novel in Cather's Prairie Trilogy, following O Pioneers (1913) and preceding My ntonia (1918). The book tells the story of a talented artist born in a small town in Colorado who discovers ...Show more