Claudine at School (Claudine #1) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the lanky Anais, the cheerful Marie and the prim Joubert twins Claudine wreaks havoc on her small school. Always clever, witty and charming Claudine is more than a match for her formidable headmistress as they ...Show more
Crime and Punishment - A New Translation by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Michael R. Katz
$30.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and on our modern world. Declared a PBS "Great American Read," Michael Katz's sparkling new translation gives new life to the story of Raskolnikov, an impov ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four [w Glover corrected last para] by George Orwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
It is 1984. The world is in a state of perpetual war and Big Brother sees and controls all. Winston Smith, a member of the Outer Party and propaganda-writer at the Ministry of Truth, is keeping a journal he should not be keeping and falling in love with Julia, a woman he should not be seeing. Outwardly ...Show more
Confessions of Felix Krull by Thomas Mann
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Category: Classics
The late, great work of Thomas Mann - a comic novel of deception and misplaced confidence - back in print for the first time in over twenty years'The most astonishing work that Mann ever wrote and also one of the most perfect. . . with Felix Krullthe world receives from Thomas Mann the gift which German ...Show more
Lotte in Weimar by Thomas Mann
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Category: Classics
Thomas Mann's meditation on the power of literary representation and the tyranny of the writer's imagination, published in Vintage Classics for the first time. Mann's novel, written some 150 years after Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, follows Lotte Kestner, Goethe's real-life heroine, as she make ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Includes pictures and section on Dostoevsky's life and works The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical, and witty monologue ranges from general observations and phi ...Show more
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family, setting them against the emergence of modern England. This work examines the relationships and the conflicts they bring, and the inextricable mingling of the physical and the spiritual.
Lysistrata - Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley by Aristophanes; Samuel Smith (Translator); Aubrey Beardsley (Illustrator)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics
A Classic Available Again Aristophanes was the greatest writer of ancient Athenian "old comedy," known for its satires of contemporary life and for its broad, often obscene humor. "Lysistrata" was first produced in 411 BC, when the Peloponnesian War had been devastating Greece for 20 years. Most people ...Show more
Life with a Capital L: Essays Chosen and Introduced by Geoff Dyer by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
For D. H. Lawrence the novel was the pinnacle, 'the one bright book of life', yet his non-fiction shows him at his most freewheeling and playful. This is a selection of his brilliantly varied essays, on subjects including art, morality, obscenity, songbirds, Italy, Thomas Hardy, the death of a porcupine ...Show more
The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Boll
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
Twenty-four-year-old Andreas, a disillusioned German soldier, is travelling on a troop train to the Eastern Front when he has an awful premonition that he will die in exactly five days. As he hurtles towards his death, he reflects on the chaos around him - the naive soldiers, the painfully thin girl who ...Show more
The Odyssey (Clothbound Classic) by Homer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
'I long to reach my home and see the day of my return. It is my never-failing wish' The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monst ...Show more
Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto
$33.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: NYRB
First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish-language literature. Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and descr ...Show more