Kim by Rudyard Kipling
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
An epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, and perhaps his greatest long work, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Rudyard Kipling's "Kim" is edited with an introduction by Harish Trivedi, and includes a general preface by Jan Montefiore. Kim, orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor white ...Show more
House of Incest: Prose Poetry by Val Telberg
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics
"The genesis of House of Incest was in the dream. The keeping of dreams was an important part of that exploration of the unconscious. But I discovered dreams in themselves, isolated, were not always interesting. Very few of them had the complete imagery and tension to arouse others' interest. They were ...Show more
Norm and Ahmed by Alex Buzo
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A rather ocker, white Australian male encounters a well-mannered Pakistani student with revolutionary ambitions in a Sydney park at midnight. Buzo creates an image of race prejudice as a profoundly irrational force in the behaviour of ordinary Australians.
Art of War by Sun Tzu
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Category: Classics
'The expert at battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men' The Art of War is the most widely read military classic in human history. Dating from the period of the warring states in early Chinese history, Sun Tzu's insights into strategy are today prized by lea ...Show more
Notes from a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoevsky
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From the acclaimed translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky comes a new translation of the first great prison memoir: Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. In 1849 Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison cam ...Show more
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics
This is a beautiful gift edition of this classic fable about one man's quest to create a forest, with a new introduction by Richard Mabey. In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzeard Bouffier. Staying with him ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The John Harvard Library
When a murder takes place in Dawson s Landing, Missouri, the lives of twin Italian noblemen, the courageous slave Roxy, her 1/32nd black son who has been raised white, and a failing lawyer with an intense interest in the science of fingerprinting become tangled. The unsolved riddle at the heart of Pudd ...Show more
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'. Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Littl ...Show more
How Much Land Does A Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics
'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!' A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's ...Show more
Sindbad the Sailor: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #54 by UNKNOWN UNKNOWN
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'The valley was full of snakes and serpents as big as palm trees, so huge that they could have swallowed any elephant that met them.' A selection of fantastic and perilous adventures at sea from the Thousand and One Nights. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little ...Show more