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A Certain Music by Celeste Walters
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
A fairytale in the tradition of Hans Christian Andersen u heart-warming and enchanting. It is 1823 and the child is a loner who spends her time hiding in the Vienna Woods until she spies an old man - a music maker. And so begins an odd friendship which develops through their mutual love of music. The ma ...Show more
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
A comedy of errors, this title portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties.
A Fairly Honourable Defeat: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL 'I ...Show more
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
On the high seas of the Caribbean, a family of English children is set loose âe" sent by their parents from their home in Jamaica to receive the civilising effects of England. When their ship is captured by pirates, the thrilling cruise continues as the children transfer their affections from one batch ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more
A ROOM WITH A VIEW by FORSTER E M
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
One of English literature's most inspiring love storiesLucy Honeychurch is a young woman torn between the opposing values of gray old England and vibrant Italy in this unforgettable story of romance and rebellion. On a trip to Florence with her older cousin and chaperone, Lucy becomes enchanted by a fre ...Show more
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of wome ...Show more
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
On his return to London after serving in the Second Anglo-Afghan War as an assistant surgeon, Doctor Watson is looking for a place to live. He is introduced to a certain Mr Holmes, an eccentric, pipe-smoking gentleman who shows an interest in chemistry and is currently engaged in a test to detect human ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (PB Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens; Hablot Knight Browne
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was theseason of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Series
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes' fortunes become inextricably intertwined with those of two men, the heroic aristocra ...Show more
A Time in Rome by Elizabeth Bowen
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome between February and Easter is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its hisotry, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere. She describes the famous classical sites, conjuring from the ruins visions of former inhabitants and their oft ...Show more