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Deep Water: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?' Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of he ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
$14.99 AUD
Category: Adult Classic | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determine ...Show more
Dracula (Usborne Graphic Classics) by Russell Punter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Teen Graphic Novels | Series: Usborne Graphic Classics Ser.
A dynamic retelling of the novel by Bram Stoker, vividly interpreted by Valentino Forlini's colourful picture strip illustrations. Renowned comics artist Mike Collins is the series consultant. Illustrations:Full colour throughout
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
$19.99 AUD
Category: Adult Classic | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck creat ...Show more
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
$14.99 AUD
Category: Storybooks - InitiaLit-F | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else for a change. He tries swimming with the seals, he spends a day lounging with the lions, and even slithers with the snakes. But Edward soon discovers that being an emu may be the best thing after all. Sheena Knowles's upbeat, rhymin ...Show more
Empire Of The Sun by J G Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. Based o ...Show more
Eternally Ritz - The Rebirth of a Legend by Laure VERCHERE
$145.00 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Classics Ser.
The legendary Ritz on Paris' Place Vendôme is more than a luxury hotel; its very name evokes dreams of the City of Light. International luminaries from the worlds of high society, fashion, art, literature, cinema, finance, and diplomacy have illuminated its rooms, from the Duchess of Windsor, Coco Chane ...Show more
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fa ...Show more
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
$14.99 AUD
Category: Adult Classic | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young ...Show more
Four Tragedies And Octavia by Seneca
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding brothers, while Phaedra p ...Show more
Frankenstein (Word Cloud Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Adult Classic | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Horror. Romance. Science. A classic tale that would be a fright to miss!The idea for the story came to the author, Mary Shelley, in a dream she had about a scientist who had created life and was horrified by what he had made. This Gothic-style romance is among the first of true science fiction novels, i ...Show more
Grimms' Fairy Tales : Collins Classics by Brothers Grimm
$9.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Two hundred years ago, the Brothers Grimm published their famous collection of folk tales, including these thirty much-loved stories of helpful elves; giants who can see into the next land; foolish but goodhearted lads; princesses with golden hair; faithful servants and wicked queens. This sumptuously i ...Show more