The Arabian Nights (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
The Arabian Nights is your magic carpet ride to exotic lands full of wonders and marvels. First collected nearly a thousand years ago, these folktales are presented as stories that crafty Scheherazade tells her husband, King Shahryar, over a thousand-and-one consecutive nights, to pique his interest for ...Show more
Our Sunshine: Popular Penguins by Robert Drewe
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Ned Kelly's reputation as an outlaw is growing. To the masses he's a folk hero, but to the Establishment he's the most wanted man in the British Empire--by Royal decree the only person that everyone is permitted to kill. When the authorities bring in an army of police to catch him, Ned plans a showdown ...Show more
Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald
$10.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men s ...Show more
The Aeneid by Virgil
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic. Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles' mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through sto ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945 this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.
A Town Like Alice: (Vintage Classics Shute Series) by Nevil Shute
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
This title features an introduction by Eric Lomax. Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that l ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables (Macmillan Collector's Library) by L. M. Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
Introducing a bold, bright new take on your favorite books. A collection that celebrates color and literature at once! It's hard to imagine little red-headed Anne Shirley without picturing the sprawling green pastures of Prince Edward Island . . . Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are in for a big surprise. ...Show more
The Moustache by Emmanuel Carrère
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Editions Ser.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARY One morning, a man shaves off his long-worn moustache, hoping to amuse his wife and friends. But when nobody notices, or pretends not to have noticed, what started out as a simple trick turns to terror. As doubt and denial bristle, and every aspect of his li ...Show more
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Paris in the twenties- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and t ...Show more
The Rise of the Roman Empire (PB) by Polybius
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200 - 118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: it ...Show more
On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Classics
On Anarchism is an essential introduction to the Noam Chomsky's political theory. On Anarchism sheds a much needed light on the foundations of Chomsky's thought, specifically his constant questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. The book gathers his essays and interviews to provide a short, ac ...Show more
Poems for Love: A New Anthology (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Gaby Morgan
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more