The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters - shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by p ...Show more
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Timeless Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle
$59.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics Ser.
Part of the elegant Knickerbocker Classics series, The Complete Sherlock Holmes is comprised of 4 full-length novels and 56 short stories featuring the world's most famous pipe-smoking detective. For Sherlock Holmes fans worldwide, this stunning hardcover edition is perfect for gift giving. Written by S ...Show more
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s.More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, ...Show more
Utopia by Thomas More
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Category: Classics
Five-hundred-year anniversary edition of More's Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writers Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More's Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her a ...Show more
The Travels : Penguin Classics designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith by Marco Polo
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Ku ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing (No Fear Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of "Much Ado About Nothing" on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.Each No Fear Shakespeare contains The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday ...Show more
The Queen Of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Penguin Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith A countess with a card trick; love letters filled with deception; a desperate man with a pistol.'The Queen of Spades', one of ...Show more
A Doll's House And Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Classics
Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. With her assertion that she is 'first and foremost a human being', Nora Helmer sent shockwaves throughout Europe when she appeared in Ibsen's greatest and most famous play, A Doll's House. Depicting ...Show more
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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Category: Classics
The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name. Set in the deep American South between the wars, The Color Purple is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children ta ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's "Ulysses" is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written betwe ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
$65.95 AUD
Category: Classics
After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches in medias res towards the end of the Trojan War between the Trojans and the besieging Greeks. Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, offers the Greeks wealth for the return of his daughter Chryseis, held captive by Agamemnon, the Greek leader. Although m ...Show more