Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford; Julian Barnes (Introduction by)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Ford Madox Ford's great masterpiece exploring love and identity during the First World War, in a Penguin Classics edition with an introduction by Julian Barnes. A masterly novel of destruction and regeneration, Parade's End follows the story of aristocrat Christopher Tietjens as his world is shattered ...Show more
East Goes West by Younghill Kang; Alexander Chee (Foreword by); Sunyoung Lee (Afterword by, Notes by)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, Chungpa Han arrives in New York. Struggling to support his studies, he travels throughout the United States and Canada, observing the idealism, ...Show more
Shooting Star: Text Classics by Peter Temple; Adrian McKinty (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Pat Carson?s old eyes were on me, looking for something.'Man is born unto trouble,? he said.I said, 'As the sparks fly upwards.?Deep lines at the corners of his mouth. 'Know your Job. Soldier. Policeman. Haven?t been a bloody priest too, have you??Anne Carson- fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted.The r ...Show more
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth . ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show'. Dickens' epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfield's extraordinary journey through life, as he ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. 'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!' Described by Dickens as 'the best story I have written', "A Tale of Two Cities" interweaves thrilling historical dr ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
$33.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Utterly unique and beloved around the world, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic essays by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. Telling the story of the prophet Al-Mustafa and his conversations with various acquaintances as he returns home after a long absence, the boo ...Show more
SONGS OF A SENTIMENTAL BLOKE by C. J. Dennis
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Editions for the Trenches Ser.
The perfect collector's item - a beautiful facsimile edition of C. J. Dennis's classic tribute to the larrikin, published by Angus & Robertson during World War One as a gift from home to the soldier in the trenches. In the rough Australian vernacular that became his signature style, C. J. Dennis te ...Show more
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature. When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the No ...Show more
I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics
To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Weaving ...Show more
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Georges Bataille's first novel is widely regarded as the erotic masterpiece of the 20th century. It appears here together with two essays: Susan Sontag's study of the literature of sex, "The Pornographic Imagination", and Roland Barthes's critical essay on the text, "The Metaphor of the Eye'.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Awakening originally titled, A Solitary Soul, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the ...Show more