Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released slaves. Now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, "Journey Without Maps" is the spellbinding record of Greene's journey. Crossing the red-clay terrain ...Show more
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A damning indictment of Utlilitarianism and the dehumanising influence of the Industrial Revolution, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is edited with an introduction and notes by Kate Flint in Penguin Classics. In Hard Times, the Northern mill-town of Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgri ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James; Brandon Taylor (Foreword by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The New York Edition of the novel, accompanied by Michael Gorra's introduction and explanatory footnotes. * Background and contextual materials centering on James as a writer, The Portrait of a Lady in revision, and reviews of the novel by James's contemporar ...Show more
The Machine Gunners (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Robert Westall
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth but wants it to be the best. When he stumbles across the wreckage of a downed German bomber, he finds the ultimate trophy - a working machine gun. Hiding his discovery from the local police, Chas recruits his friends and together th ...Show more
Scoop (HB) by Evelyn Waugh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The best satire of journalism ever written, now in a wonderful new hardback editionLord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of The Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a mome ...Show more
The Secret of Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay; Johnn Taylor (Editor); Yvonne Rousseau (Commentaries by)
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Category: Classics
Joan Lindsay's classic novel Picnic At Hanging Rock is a subtle blend of mysterious and sinister events set in a period of Australian social life drawn with loving nostalgia. The final chapter was removed at the request of her publishers, creating a mystery to which thousands have begged to know the sol ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics
The novel is set in impoverished rural Wessex during the Long Depression. Tess is the oldest child of John and Joan Durbeyfield, uneducated rural peasants. One day, Parson Tringham informs John that he has noble blood. Tringham, an amateur genealogist, has discovered that "Durbeyfield" is a corruption o ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Chiltern Classic Ser.
One of the most influential novels ever written Gustave Flaubert is arguably one of the greatest writers of all time. His first novel, Madame Bovary, was published in 1856 and is considered a literary masterpiece by critics and scholars. His skillful turn of phrase combined with scandal on the nove ...Show more
Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID LODGE When inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser to ease the discomfort of sedentary life, he decides the time has come to give up teaching and seek his fortune in the metropolis. He soon finds himself caught up in the hedonistic world of his f ...Show more
Thank You, Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster) by P.G. Wodehouse
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Category: Classics | Series: Jeeves and Wooster Ser.
'The Funniest writer ever to put words on paper' Hugh Laurie 'I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.' The odds are stacked against Chuffy when he fall ...Show more
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Rabbit, Run is a 1960 novel by John Updike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life.