1984 by George Orwell
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su ...Show more
Out of Africa: Popular Penguins by Karen Blixen
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In one of the most passionate memoirs ever written, Karen Blixen recalls running a farm in Africa at the start of the twentieth century, and the love affair that changed her life.'When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music.'From the moment Karen Blixen arriv ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translation Nothing in the whole of literature compares withThe Master and Margarita.One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and ...Show more
Terra Australis: Text Classics by Matthew Flinders
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and com ...Show more
Northanger Abbey (Penguin English Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen. 'To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive'. During an eventful season at Bath, yo ...Show more
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
First published in 1609, "The Sonnets" of William Shakespeare are a collection of 154 loosely connected 14 line poems. Considered by many to be among some of the greatest love poetry ever written much debate surrounds the context of the poetry. It has been suggested that the work may be semi-autobiograp ...Show more
A Little Princess (Word Cloud Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Captain Crewe, a wealthy English widower, has been raising his only child, Sara, in India where he is stationed with the British Army. Because the Indian climate is considered too harsh for children, British families living there traditionally send their children to boarding school back home in England. ...Show more
Bitin' Back: First Nations Classics by Melissa Lucashenko, Vivienne Cleven
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush-cunning and fast footwork to unravel the mystery behind this sudden change of face.Funny but ...Show more
Dreaming in the Urban Areas: First Nations Classics by Lisa Bellear, Kirli Saunders
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Lisa Bellear's poetry moves sharply between street-smart portrayals of poverty and dispossession, and the complexity of Black love, identity and experience. She reaches into the unspeakable parts of a colonial past in order to unpick the ongoing repercussions of Australia's invasion and history.Written ...Show more
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, is a children's novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), first published in 1871. The book reprises characters from her 1868-69 two-volume novel, Little Women, and acts as a sequel, or as the second book in an unofficial Little Women trilog ...Show more
The Brothers Grimm: Volume I - 101 Fairy Tales (Word Cloud Classics) by The Brothers Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm; Jacob Grimm
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
No home library is complete without the classics This new collection of stories from Brothers Grimm: 101 Fairy Tales is a keepsake to be read and treasured. They are the stories of characters we've known since childhood: Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella. But the works originally collected by ...Show more
The Little Prince: Popular Penguins by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of ext ...Show more