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Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier; Sarah Perry (Introduction by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. Fo ...Show more
Shallows by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
No.1 Australian Bestseller.Author Published Internationally. Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passinig defines the rythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begin ...Show more
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger; Michael Hoffman (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics. 'As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters. They seemed to ...Show more
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For bet ...Show more
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Saul Bellow's American masterpiece, "The Adventures of Augie March" includes an introduction by Christopher Hitchens in "Penguin Modern Classics". A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, i ...Show more
The Animals of Farthing Wood Modern Classic by Colin Dann
$19.99 AUD
Category: Kids Classics | Series: Egmont Modern Classics Ser.
'We must all find a new home. Now - before it's too late!' Farthing Wood is being bulldozed, and there's a drought. Fox, Badger, Toad, Tawny Owl, Mole and the other animals must band together and set off to a far-away nature reserve. Their journey is full of adventure and fraught with disasters, and the ...Show more
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
$22.99 AUD
Category: Kids Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the twentieth century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, b ...Show more
The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Classics
Re-release of John Le Carré's most surprising book. Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has disappeared.Her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur g ...Show more
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel <i>The Day of the Triffids</i> to moderate acclaim. Nearly seventy years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by <i>The Times</i> (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.” Bill Mas ...Show more
The English Patient: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by Michael Ondaatje
$17.98 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries ...Show more