The Island by Ana María Matute; Laura Lonsdale (Translator)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds' Expelled from her convent school for kicking the prioress, and abandoned by her father when her mother dies, rebellious teenager Matia is sent to live with her domineering grandmother on the island of ...Show more
The Empty Raincoat by Charles B. Handy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
In this extraordinary, life-affirming book, Charles Handy reaches for a philosophy beyond the impersonal mechanics of business organisations, and beyond material choices. He presents a powerful alternative vision, where life and work are re-grounded in a natural sense of continuity, connection and purpo ...Show more
The War of the Worlds (Knickerbocker Classics) by H. G. Wells
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics
Find yourself caught in the middle of an alien invasion in the late 1800s in this thrilling science fiction classic. A classic science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds tells the story of the martian invasion of Planet Earth. This late-ninteenth century novel plays on the mood of the period in which ...Show more
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three dec ...Show more
Les Miserables (Word Cloud Classics) by Victor Hugo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
As much a history or commentary as a work of fiction, Les Misérables is dominated by France's past. While the fictional aspects may seem to be an afterthought, Hugo's craft is apparent as he weaves multiple characters together. (Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood)
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
$21.99 AUD
Category: Classics
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BERNARD CORNWELL When Andre-Louis witnesses the murder of his best friend by an arrogant and privileged aristocrat he swears to avenge his death. Forced to flee his hometown after stirring up revolutionary fervour in the citizens, he falls in with a travelling theatre company an ...Show more
Great Diaries: The world's most remarkable diaries, journals, notebooks, and letters by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages. Great Diariestraces the history of the diary in all its forms, from ancient times to the present day. It brings together historical and literary diaries, artists' ...Show more
Little Women (Word Cloud Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
When Little Women was first published in 1868, it became an instant bestseller. The book's gentle lessons and charming story of four adventurous sisters coming of age in Civil War-era New England was originally written as a children's book, but quickly captured the hearts and attention of readers of all ...Show more
The Secret Garden (Word Cloud Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
The classic children's story, now available in a new package A classic piece of children's literature first published as a novel in 1911, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden is a story of transformation and renewal. Unwanted by her parents, Mary Lennox, a spoiled, selfish young girl is raise ...Show more
The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focussing on the principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thinking very carefully about strategy before resorting to phy ...Show more
Wonders of a Godless World by Andrew McGahan
$23.99 AUD
Category: Classics
On an unnamed island, in a Gothic hospital sitting in the shadow of a volcano, a wordless orphan girl works on the wards housing the insane and the incapable. When a silent, unmoving and unnerving new patient - a foreigner - arrives at the hospital, strange phenomena occur, bizarre murders take place, a ...Show more