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
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics Ser.
Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focussing on the principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thinking very carefully about strategy before resorting to phy ...Show more
Oreo by Fran Ross
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James 'A rollicking little masterpiece . . . one of the most delightful, hilarious, intelligent novels I've stumbled across in recent years' Paul Auster Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandpare ...Show more
Judas by Amos Oz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade - since A Tale of Love and Darkness, which sold over 100,000 copies. It is selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Times Literary Supplement. Shmuel, a young, idealistic student, is drawn to a mysterious handwritten note on a campus noticeboard. This takes him ...Show more
Tales of Norse Mythology by Helen A. Guerber
$33.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions
Literary Wonderlands by Laura Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From the advent of the first works of literature many millennia ago, writers have used imaginary worlds both to entertain their readers and to examine concepts, highlight key issues and consider their personal beliefs about the society, natural surroundings and experience of being of which they are a pa ...Show more
Little Women (Puffin Designer Classic) by Louisa May Alcott
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
This classic edition of Louisa May Alcott's most popular and enduring book is beautifully packaged for children today. "I want to do something splendid. something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what,but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someda ...Show more
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three dec ...Show more
Les Miserables (Word Cloud Classics) by Victor Hugo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
As much a history or commentary as a work of fiction, Les Misérables is dominated by France's past. While the fictional aspects may seem to be an afterthought, Hugo's craft is apparent as he weaves multiple characters together. (Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood)
Great Diaries: The world's most remarkable diaries, journals, notebooks, and letters by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages. Great Diariestraces the history of the diary in all its forms, from ancient times to the present day. It brings together historical and literary diaries, artists' ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jonathan Swift; Henry Hitchings (Afterword by); Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In this narrative of the gullible ship's doctor Lemuel Gulliver and his extraordinary travels, Jonathan Swift takes readers through a series of apparently child-like fantasy worlds of tiny people and giants, floating islands and talking horses. But through this fantastic journey, he also gave to literat ...Show more
The Republic by Plató
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, the order and character of the just, city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and has proven to be one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically. ...Show more