Leaves of Grass (Illustrated Ed) by Walt Whitman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions Ser.
First published by Walt Whitman, in 1855, Leaves of Grass is the landmark poetry collection that introduced the world to a new and uniquely American form. Alive with the mythical strength and vitality that epitomized the American experience in the nineteenth century, and published here with rarely colle ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.'Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide t ...Show more
The Iliad (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Homer (Translated by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Iliad has had a far-reaching impact on Western literature and culture, inspiring writers, artists and classical composers across the ages. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful boo ...Show more
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Palestine, 1941. In the small village of Ein Hod a father leads a procession of his family and workers through the olive groves. As they move through the trees the green fruits drop onto the orchard floor; the ancient cycle of the seasons providing another bountiful harvest.1948. The Abulheja family are ...Show more
The Iliad: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Homer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition | Reading Level: very good
One of the epics in Western literature, "The Iliad" recounts the story of the Trojan wars. In his introduction, the author observes that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it co-exists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace.
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Fishing boats lay at anchor and they cruised around these, hailing, and examining them through the periscope. They learned nothing, save for the inference that when the end had come the people had died tidily.Set in Melbourne following a catastrophic war in the northern hemisphere, Nevil Shute's classic ...Show more
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe.
Dog Boy: Text Classics by Eva Hornung; Yann Martel (Introduction by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2010Introduced by Yann MartelAbandoned in a big city at the onset of winter, a hungry four-year-old boy follows a stray dog to her lair. There in the rich smelly darkness, in the rub of hair, claws and teeth, he joins four puppies suckling at their mother's ...Show more
The Fall by Albert Camus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You ...Show more
Out: (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) by Natsuo Kirino
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser.
VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A young ...Show more
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters - shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by p ...Show more