Death Comes For the Archbishop by Cather Willa
$26.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC
In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows - gently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly reb ...Show more
The Rebel - An Essay on Man in Revolt (US ed.) by Camus Albert
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: AC
Camus' major essay on the nature and origins of rebellion demonstrates how revolution, by its very nature, inevitably leads to new tyranny. Translated by Anthony Bower.
Exile and the Kingdom -(Adulterous Wife, Renegade, Voiceless, Guest, Jonas & Growing Stone) by Albert Camus
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International
From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary b ...Show more
Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl
$28.00 AUD
Category: Classics
In this collection of stories, Dahl tantalizes, amuses, and sometimes terrifies readers into a sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. Included in this collection are such notorious gems of the bizarre as "The Second Machine," "Lamb to the Slaughter," "Neck," and "The Landlady." Other stories explore ...Show more
What We Talk about When We Talk About Love by R. Carver
$0.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film "Birdman," Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and find ...Show more
Henry Lawson Selected Stories by Henry Lawson
$17.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
An essential collection of Henry Lawson's best-loved stories. Rogues, larrikins and the lost people - these timeless stories range from inspired, laconic comedies to pathos and tragedy. this selection showcases Lawson's range as a fiction writer and highlights his profound influence on how Australians ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to W ...Show more
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, B ...Show more
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope & Odysseus: Text Myth Series by Margaret Atwood
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Myth
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and m ...Show more
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, h ...Show more
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, "The Old Man and the Sea" has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simpl ...Show more