Gulliver's Travels (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jonathan Swift; Henry Hitchings (Afterword by); Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In this narrative of the gullible ship's doctor Lemuel Gulliver and his extraordinary travels, Jonathan Swift takes readers through a series of apparently child-like fantasy worlds of tiny people and giants, floating islands and talking horses. But through this fantastic journey, he also gave to literat ...Show more
The Jungle Book (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a classic story of friendship between man and beast.Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther. The adventures of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi t ...Show more
Little Women (Puffin Designer Classic) by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
A beautiful hardback cloth cover edition of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - a novel loved by adults and children alike. Come laugh and cry with the March family. Meg - the sweet-tempered one. Jo - the smart one. Beth - the shy one. Amy - the sassy one. Together they're the March sisters. Their fathe ...Show more
Photographs In The Mud (Kokoda Track, 1942) by Dianne Wolfer; Brian Harrison-Lever
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Category: Classics
The Kokoda Track, 1942. Jack and Hoshi are soldiers on opposite sides in the war who meet in battle, discovering that they have much more in common than they had ever realised.Photographs in the Mudis a beautifully illustrated and moving story of events on the Kokoda Track during the Second World War fr ...Show more
The Writer's Game: Modern Authors by Alex Johnson
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Category: Classics
Who had the most commercial success in their lifetime, Ernest Hemingway or Agatha Christie? Whose work has the most adaptations, F. Scott Fitzgerald or Franz Kafka? Who courted the most scandal, Colette or James Joyce? Pit 32 of the world's greatest modern writers against each other with these beautiful ...Show more
My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams a South African Explores the Madness in His Country,His Tribe and Himself by Rian Malan
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Category: Classics
Rian Malan is an Afrikaner, a member of the clan that produced Daniel Francois Malan, one of the master builders of apartheid, and General Magnus Malan, South Africa's Minister of Defence. In 1977, he fled his homeland to live in America. Eight years later, he returned home to face his country, his trib ...Show more
Life and Adventures: Text Classics by Tim Flannery, William Buckley
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Category: Classics
In 1803 the convict William Buckley, a former soldier, escaped from the first official settlement in Victoria, near Sorrento on Port Phillip Bay. For three decades the 'wild white man' lived with Aborigines around the bay, before giving himself up in 1835. First published in 1852, The Life and Adventure ...Show more
The Republic by Plató
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Category: Classics
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, the order and character of the just, city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and has proven to be one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically. ...Show more
Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story by Solomon Northup
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture. 'Why had I not died in my young years - before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for liberty; but the ...Show more
Literary Wonderlands by Laura Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From the advent of the first works of literature many millennia ago, writers have used imaginary worlds both to entertain their readers and to examine concepts, highlight key issues and consider their personal beliefs about the society, natural surroundings and experience of being of which they are a pa ...Show more
Skylight by José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
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Category: Classics
Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself for money and jewellery; the cultivated family come down in the world; and the beautiful typist whos ...Show more
Little Women (Puffin Designer Classic) by Louisa May Alcott
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
This classic edition of Louisa May Alcott's most popular and enduring book is beautifully packaged for children today. "I want to do something splendid. something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what,but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someda ...Show more