The Iliad by Homer
$64.00 AUD
Category: Classics
One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green captures the Iliad in all its surging th ...Show more
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International
Here, for the first time, the stories of one of the century's greatest prose stylists are collected in a single, comprehensive volume. Written from the early 1920s - the years of his exile from Russia - to the mid-1950s, when he abandoned the story form and turned to his English-language masterpieces Lo ...Show more
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A central story of Nicholas Nickleby and the misfortunes of his family with the characters the muddle-headed Mrs Nickleby, the gloriously theatrical Crummles, their protege Miss Petowker, the pretentious Mantalinis and the mindlessly cruel Squeers and his wife.
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social ...Show more
The Mahabharata by J.D. Smith
$40.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A new selection from the national epic of India Originally composed in Sanskrit sometime between 400 BC and 400 AD, The Mahabharata-with one hundred thousand stanzas of verse-is one of the longest poems in existence. At the heart of the saga is a conflict between two branches of a royal family wh ...Show more
Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully. Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto's famous Gol ...Show more
The Young Desire It: Text Classics by Kenneth Mackenzie
$12.95 AUD
Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
In the late afternoon of a day in February, that hottest of Australian summer months, when a brutal sun stood bronze above the river flats which you may see from the dormitory windows of Chatterton, Charles came to the school with his mother, walking from the railway station to the gates by a private pa ...Show more
Fear Drive My Feet: Text Classics by Peter Ryan
$12.95 AUD
Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
Fear Drive My Feet is Peter Ryan's enduring account of his time patrolling isolated regions of New Guinea during World War II. Far from his fellow Australians and with Japanese forces closing in around him, the eighteen-year-old Ryan endures the hardships of the jungle, overcoming loneliness, fatigue an ...Show more
King Lear (Arden Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Arden Shakespeare Ser.
Jonathan Munby's explosive revival of Shakespeare's epic tragedy transferred to the West End following its sold-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre, performed by a celebrated cast led by Ian McKellen as the embittered monarch in a fractured kingdom. This version of the text was edited and curated spe ...Show more
Bulfinch's Mythology: Stories of Gods and Heroes (Word Cloud Classics) by Thomas Bulfinch
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
An easily understood reference guide to the deities of Greek and Roman mythology. Stories of Gods and Heroes, originally published in 1855, is the first of three works that make up Bulfinch's Mythology, by Thomas Bulfinch. A useful and concise guide to the gods and goddesses of Greek and Roman mythology ...Show more
The Odyssey (Word Cloud Classics) by Homer
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics
The epic story of Odysseus' journey home. The story of Odysseus' perilous journey home after the fall of Troy relates allegorical tales of goddesses and sirens, capture and escape, and maneuvering between Scylla and Charybdis. After ten years of travel, Odysseus finally reaches Ithaca to find his fami ...Show more
Hill's End by Ivan Southall
$12.95 AUD
Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
On a fateful day in Hills End, a timber-milling town in the mountains of Victoria, seven children and their teacher set off to explore caves in the nearby mountains said to contain ancient Aboriginal rock art. While they are deep inside the mountain caves a storm of tremendous violence all but sweeps th ...Show more