A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pantheon Modern Writers Ser.
"A Very Easy Death "has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death "shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence" ("The Sunday Telegraph"). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this i ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
$18.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: 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. The Woman in Whitefamously opens with Walter Hartright's ...Show more
The Town in Bloom by Dodie Smith
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A determined young Lancashire girl arrives in London intent on a stage career - this tale from the author of I Capture the Castle is told with the candour and authenticity that derives from Dodie Smith's own experience of the theatre world. Mouse never did fully suit her nickname. Tiny she may have bee ...Show more
Teachings of the Buddha by Desmond Biddulph
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Introducing the insights of the Buddha, universal and timeless inspiration for our search for true happiness. A deluxe cloth edition with a foil blocked sticker and a removable insight card so you can carry the Buddha's teachings everywhere you go, this beautifully packaged collection is the perfect ...Show more
The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I do not know that one ought to be surprised at anything.' The Duke of Omnium is overwhelmed by the death of his vivacious wife, Lady Glencora. Once the British Prime Minister, he is now in sole charge of his three wilful children. Lord Gerald has been sent down from University; Lord Silverbridge ha ...Show more
The Prose Edda by Jesse L. Byock, Jesse L Byock
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves ...Show more
Plutarch's Lives: Lycurgus and Numa, Alexander and Caesar by Plutarch
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Category: Classics
Plutarch (c. 46-120 AD) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, best known for Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives. Plutarch's Lives is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virt ...Show more
Exile & The Kingdom by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary b ...Show more
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | Series: JK
Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men engaged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
The Comedians by Graham Greene
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man - these are the 'comedians' of Graham Greene's ...Show more
The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob: WITH Brother Jacob by George Eliot
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.' The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the b ...Show more
REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE by MCCULLERS CARSON
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Category: Classics
A new trade paperback edition of McCullers' second novel, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, immortalized by the 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and John Houston. Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, REFLECTIONS tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by t ...Show more