Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition by George Orwell
$28.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This is the essential edition of the essential book of modern times, "1984", now annotated for students with an introduction by D. J. Taylor. Ever since its publication in 1949, George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like 'a boot stamping on a ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
$38.95 AUD
Category: Classics
At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. The love affair of Anna ...Show more
The Moon and Sixpence by W Somerset Maugham
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The Moon and Sixpence, published in 1919, was one of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maughamas reputation as a literary master. It follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he abandons his home, ...Show more
Pelican Shakespeare - Julius Caesar (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (ed William Mongomery)
$8.95 AUD
Category: Classics
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the d ...Show more
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
$20.00 AUD
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