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
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 Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe | Reading Level: very good
If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradIn Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the lo ...Show more
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
A stunning 3-in-1 edition of one of the great works of Western literature.An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
A well-priced edition of one of the greatest twentieth century novels, with a striking new jacket and an introduction by Charlotte Wood.Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in what remains of a Britain ravaged by revolution. His every move is monitored by the Thought Police, who are responsible ...Show more
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
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
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. ...Show more
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' - Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbid ...Show more
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own sub-Stan Lee creation. Abandoned at the mayor's office, a bab ...Show more
Ulverton (Vintage Past) by Adam Thorpe
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton- one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth century farmer carrie ...Show more