Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, Francoise Sagan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithPublished when she was only eighteen, Fran oise Sagan's astonishing novella, Bonjour Tristesse, became an insta ...Show more
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A special hardback edition of Murakami's brilliantly surreal, detective-story classic, A Wild Sheep Chase. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's brilliantly surreal, detective-story classic, now with a new i ...Show more
The Last Tree on Easter Island by Jared Diamond
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself by exploiting its own natural resources - and why we must heed this warning.
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) by Yoko Ogawa
$23.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Series
Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one another. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbe ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Flexi Edition) by Jane Austen
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Flexi Edition
Sense and Sensibilityis Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Ros Ballaster, University of Oxford Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the ...Show more
Nabokov's Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithThirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation o ...Show more
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From ratty attic to Auschwitz and back again, Mother Night is the confessions of Howard W Campbell Jr - an American, a notorious Nazi propagandist, and a US counter-spy - not a moral man. This mournful, macabre and diabolically funny tale of unsung heroism uses acrid humour to underline the horror of it ...Show more
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa; Charles Terry (Translator)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai-without really knowing what it meant-he regains ...Show more
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not -- strong, beautifu ...Show more
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Noble Prize for Literature. Here, is a perfectly crafted story is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty ...Show more
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
** The Sunday TimesNumber One bestseller **A Daily Telegraph / Financial Times / Guardian / Sunday Times / The Times /New Statesman/ Observer Book of the Year'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE.' - OBSERVERIn May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through t ...Show more