Cousin Bette by Honoré De Balzac
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Vividly bringing to life the rift between the old world and the new, Cousin Bette is an incisive study of vengeance, and the culmination of The Human Comedy.
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
"First published in 1946, this humane epic novel is set in rural Iceland in the early twentieth century. Bjartus is a sheep farmer determined to eke a living from a blighted patch of land. Nothing, not merciless weather, nor his family will come between him and his goal of financial independence. Only A ...Show more
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explo ...Show more
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia--from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"A landmark."--Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyFor more than three decades, Svetlana Ale ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka; Edwin Muir (Translator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
In AmericaKarl Rossmann is 'packed off to America by his parents' to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and 'America' is never quite as real as it should be. Kafka, a Czech writing in German, never acutally visited America; so, as Max Brod commented, ' ...Show more
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
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Category: Classics
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung al ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut: Complete Stories by Dave (FRW) Dan (EDT); Eggers Jerome (EDT); Wakefield Kurt; Klinkowitz Vonnegut
$75.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the 20th century's greatest writers. More than half of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. Organized thematically--War, Women, Science, Romance, Work Ethic v. Fam ...Show more
A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love, & Truth& Justice by Raimond Gaita
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics
In this marvellous book, Raimond Gaita, the acclaimed author of "Romulus, My Father", reflects on ideas about good and evil, guilt and remorse, forgiveness and compassion. In his discussion of issues ranging from Mabo and land rights to the Holocaust, Gaita argues that we must realise that every human l ...Show more
Weekend Wodehouse by P. G. Wodehouse; Hilaire Belloc (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HILAIRE BELLOC'P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection'Julian FellowesWeekend Wodehouse - required reading at country house parties in the late Th ...Show more
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Jaded by the numbing politeness of Restoration London, Lady Dona St. Columb revolts against high society. She rides into the countryside, guided only by her restlessness and her longing to escape. But when chance leads her to meet a French pirate, hidden within Cornwall's shadowy forests, Dona discovers ...Show more
The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
$18.95 AUD
Category: Classics
A tale of delicate beauty and deceptive simplicity by one of the greatest Scandinavian writers of the twentieth century. The Birds tells the story of Mattis, who has mental disabilities and lives in a small house near a lake with his sister Hege who ekes out a modest living knitting sweaters. From time ...Show more
Thrilling Cities by Ian Fleming
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
On November 2nd armed with a sheaf of visas ...one suitcase ...and my typewriter, I left humdrum London for the thrilling cities of the world...In 1959, Ian Fleming, the creator of "James Bond", was commissioned by the "Sunday Times" to explore fourteen of the world's most exotic cities. Fleming saw it ...Show more