A Room With A View: Penguin English Library by E. M. Forster
$17.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ..." Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ord ...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
In Love by Alfred Hayes
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
An exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair, set in noirish 1950s New YorkIn a Manhattan bar, a middle-aged man tells a young woman of his love affair with a lonely divorcee; of how one night she was offered one thousand dollars to sleep with a stranger; and of how he and she would subsequently betra ...Show more
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 2 by Patrick McGuinness (ed)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics
'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates ...Show more
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 1 by Patrick McGuinness (ed)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. The first volume spans 400 years, taking the ...Show more
Snow White and Other Grimms' Fairy Tales: Illustrated with Interactive Elements by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
$40.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Illustrated with Interactive Elements Ser.
The ninth book in Harper Design's deluxe classic illustrated series -a beautiful and inventive fresh take on the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales, including "Snow White," with stunning full-color artwork and interactive features created by MinaLima, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the ...Show more
The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Leaving her orphanage at sixteen, Sukey Bond finds employment as a servant in the remote New Easter Farm, deep within the Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with simple, gentle Eric, the son of the rector's wife. But when their relationship is discovered, they are swiftly separated. So begins Sukey' ...Show more
Answered PrayersThe Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Although Truman Capote's last, unfinished novel offers a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time.Tracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from l ...Show more
Aunts Up the Cross: Text Classics by Robin Dalton
$14.95 AUD
Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
50 years after its original publication, Aunts Up The Cross remains a perennial classic of Australian childhood. Growing up in the 1930s in a grand old home in Sydney's bohemian Kings Cross, Robin Dalton experienced a childhood of curiosity and wonder. Raised by a bevy of idiosyncratic aunts and a revol ...Show more
The Wild Palms by William Faulkner
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict risks his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these seperate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation.
The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
$15.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted, Golyadkin fi ...Show more
Botchan by Natsume Soseki
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
New in Penguin Japanese Classics- Japan's favourite novel about growing up and finding yourself Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched ...Show more