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1984 by George Orwell
$32.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has ...Show more
A Room with a View - Where Angels Fear to Tread by Ann Pasternak Slater (Introduction by); E. M. Forster
$42.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
E. M. Forster's beloved Italian novels, now in a single hardcover volume. Forster's most memorably romantic exploration of the liberating effects of Italy on the English, A Room with a View follows the carefully chaperoned Lucy Honeychurch to Florence. There she meets the unconventional George Emerson a ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Since its publication fifty years ago, "Animal Farm" has become one of the most controversial books ever written. It has been translated into seventy languages and sold millions of copies throughout the world. This edition is being published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its original U.S. p ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
$38.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
A towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD""is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by gene ...Show more
Catch 22 by Heller
$38.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Catch-22" is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World War II, in a ...Show more
Collected Stories Roald by Roald Dahl; Jeremy Treglown (Introduction by)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
The only hardcover edition of Roald Dahl's stories for adults, the Collected Stories amply showcases his singular gifts as a fabulist and a born storyteller. Later known for his immortal children's books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and The BFG, Dahl also had ...Show more
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO by PASTERNAK BORIS
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
In the grand tradition of the epic novel, Boris Pasternak's masterpiece brings to life the drama and immensity of the Russian Revolution through the story of the gifted physician-poet, Zhivago; the revolutionary, Strelnikov; and Lara, the passionate woman they both love. Caught up in the great events o ...Show more
Dubliners by JOYCE JAMES
$44.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Dubliners is a landmark in modern literature, and one of the twentieth century's finest collections of short stories. In its remarkable portrait of a city and its people, it dramatises ordinary life in the modern world. Together, the stories form one interwoven tapestry which provides a rich and subtle ...Show more
His Dark Materials - The Golden Compass/ The Subtle Knife/ The Amber Spyglass by PULLMAN PHILIP
$52.95 AUD
Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
The only hardcover omnibus of the best-selling and award-winning fantasy trilogy, in a Contemporary Classics edition. Philip Pullman's trilogy is a masterpiece that transcends genre and appeals to readers of all ages. His heroine, Lyra, is an orphan living in a parallel universe in which science, theo ...Show more
Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
$34.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Lolita" tells the story of aging Hubert Humbert who has an obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze. It is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. All in all, "Lolita" is filled with awe and exhilaration, along ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
$36.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Mrs. Dalloway "chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway-a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide of a young man she has never met. In giving an apparently ordinary day such immense resonance and sig ...Show more