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Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story by Solomon Northup
$5.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture. 'Why had I not died in my young years - before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for liberty; but the ...Show more
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Leather Bound) by Jules Verne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics
A gorgeous edition of Jules Verne's landmark of science fiction and wonder, featuring full-colour art by Milo Winter. When Professor Pierre Aronnax and harpoonist Ned Land join an expedition to hunt a fierce 'whale' that has been sinking ships, they end up as captives of Captain Nemo, who prowls the sea ...Show more
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Word Cloud Classics) by Jules Verne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea tells the classic story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the point of view of Professor Pierre Aronnax, who was commissioned to find the mysterious sea monster responsible for sinking ships. Written by French science fiction writer Jules Verne ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Knickerbocker Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
$16.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Knickerbocker Classics
What does it mean to be free? The first black hero of literature, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Tom is a slave who suffers for refusing to obey his white oppressors. Few books have changed the world as much as Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was published in 1852, nine years before the start of the American Civil Wa ...Show more
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
$33.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by P ...Show more
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's "Under the Volcano" includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in "Penguin Modern Classics". It is the fiesta 'Day of the Dead' in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins ...Show more
Unreliable Memoirs: Unrealiable Memoirs Book 1 by Clive James
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by P. J. O'Rourke 'Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal injuries from trying to suppress your laughter.' Sunday Times I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me. I ...Show more
Utz by Chatwin, Bruce
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE. Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individuality through his devotion to his precious collection of Meissen porcelain. Although ...Show more
Velveteen Rabbit Plush Gift Set: The Classic Edition Board Book + Plush Stuffed Animal Toy Rabbit Gift Set by WILLIAMS, MARGERY
$35.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: The\Classic Edition Ser.
Margery Williams Binaco's best-known children story is now available as a boxed set that includes a lovable, huggable Velveteen Rabbit plush. Charles Santore's beautiful, best-selling illustrations capture the spirit of these classic books, making the stories leap off the page. Great for Easter baskets ...Show more
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones; James Nightingale (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Classic Civilisations
The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us, from our calendar and coins to our language and laws, but how much do we really know about them? Help is at hand in the form of this bookwhich tells the remarkable, and often surprising, story of the Romans and th ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more
War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY 'If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it' The Times From sophisticated Moscow soirees to breathless troika rides through the snow, from the bloody front line ...Show more