Such is Life by Joseph Furphy
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
A classic of the Australian outback, Such Is Life is the farcical, tragic reminiscences of Tom Collins, philosopher and rogue. As Tom drives his team across the plains of the Riverina and northern Victoria, he gets entangled in the fate of others like Rory O'Halloran, the two Alfs (Nosey and Warrigal) a ...Show more
Waterlog by Roger Deakin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Inspired by John Cheever's classic short story, "The Swimmer," Roger Deakin set out from his moat in Suffolk to swim through the British Isles. The result of his journey is a maverick work of observation and imagination. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Edgar Allan Poe
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
All of the tales by the master of the detective and the macabre story. 53 of his best-known poems plus essays and criticisms. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
Tales of Norse Mythology (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by H.A. Guerber
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions
Scandinavians of the Viking Age explored the mysteries of life through their sagas. Folklorist Helene Adeline Guerber brings to life the gods and goddesses, giants and dwarves, and warriors and monsters of these stories in Tales of Norse Mythology. Ranging from the comic to the tragic, these legends tel ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes.At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly en ...Show more
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
<i>‘Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.’</i> Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell’s magnificent historical epic is an unforgettable tale of love and loss, of a nation mortally divided and a people for ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. LAWRENCE
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an ...Show more
Macbeth (Wordsworth Collector's Edition) by William Shakespeare
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Shakespeare's Macbethis one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to gain and retain the crown of Scotland, we see the a ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Collector's Edition) by William Shakespeare
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night's Dreamone of the most popular of Shakespeare's works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd a ...Show more
Hamlet (Wordsworth Collector's Edition) by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence alternates with introspection, its melancholy with ...Show more
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Chartwell Classic) by Washington Irving
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
From Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman to Rip Van Winkle, this elegantly designed hardcover includes Washington Irving's best-known characters.
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiance Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate Am ...Show more