The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan by W.S. Gilbert
$33.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Gilbert and Sullivan's operas are some of the world's best-loved musical works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsy-turvy logic and extravagant wordplay. This glorious treasury is the definitive annotated edition of all fourteen of their operas. From the partially lost work "Thespis", the ...Show more
Moby-Dick Or, The Whale by Herman Melville
$33.00 AUD
Category: Classics
In part, "Moby-Dick" is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's ...Show more
Heart Of Darkness (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Joseph Conrad
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism in a deluxe edition with a gripping cover by "Hellboy" artist Mike Mignola "Heart of Darkness" is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recounting his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader ...Show more
Street Haunting and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics
Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of her life. The result is a phenomenal collection of articles, of which this selection offers a fascinating glimpse, which display the gifts of a dazzling soc ...Show more
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
Set in medieval Paris, Victor Hugo s powerful historical romance "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" has resonated with succeeding generations ever since its publication in 1837. It tells the story of the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the tormented archdeacon Claude Frollo, who lusts afte ...Show more
City Of God by Saint Augustine
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and "City of God" is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of R ...Show more
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Thomas Hardy's tragic vision of a love struggling to overcome prejudice and rejection, "The Return of the Native" is edited in "Penguin Classics" with an introduction by Penny Bouhmelha. Against the lowering background of Egdon Heath, fiery Eustacia Vye passes her days, wishing only for passionate love. ...Show more
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Category: Classics
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' - Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbid ...Show more
The Suburbs of Hell: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
'His eyes are on the one eye of the rifle. His mouth splits open his brown beard. He throws up a hand, palm outward, in an unwilled, futile gesture to ward off death.' A killer is hounding the seaside town of Old Tornwich. Residents are gripped by fear and suspicion, and the finger of blame is pointed i ...Show more
To the Islands: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
Behind the uneasy trees rose the hills, and beyond them again the country of the lost, huge wilderness between this last haunt of civilization and the unpeopled sea. Exhausted and losing faith, an Anglican minister flees his mission in Australia's northwest for the vast emptiness of the outback. In the ...Show more
Tourmaline: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
There is no stretch of land on earth more ancient than this. And so it is blunt and red and barren, littered with the fragments of broken mountains, flat, waterless. Tourmaline, in outback Western Australia, is dying: its mines lie abandoned and drought has taken hold. When the enigmatic diviner Michael ...Show more
The Girl Green as Elderflower: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
$12.95 AUD
Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
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