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Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
$4.95 AUD
Category: Don't use | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: good
On the 150th anniversary of artist Arthur Rackham's birth, a gorgeous hardcover - the only one in print - of his delightfully spooky illustrated edition of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy ...Show more
The Book of Five Rings by Musashi Miyamoto
$26.99 AUD
Category: Don't use | Series: Shambhala classics library
A study of the subtle arts of leadership, conflict and mastery, "The Book of Five Rings" was composed in 1643 by the famed duellist and undefeated samurai, Miyamoto Musashi. This manual presents a translation which seeks to speak not only to martial artists but to business people and leaders in all prof ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy; J. I. M. Stewart (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Michael Henchard knew he deserved the pain he felt. Henchard is a handsome farm laborer. When he gets drunk at a country fair, he sells his wife and child to a sailor. The next day, ashamed by what he has done, he lets people believe that his wife has died. Thus begins a chain of events which leads Henc ...Show more
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens; Peter Washington (Introduction by)
$32.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
'Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. 'Where is your nephew?' repeated Neveille. 'Why do you ask me?' 'I ask you,' retorted Jasper, 'because you were the last person in his company, and he is not to be found.' The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's last novel, lay unfinished at his death. Specul ...Show more
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
$28.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature' s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book's eponymous character, who later vanishes. Was Drood murdered, and if so by whom? All clues point to John Jasper, Drood's lug ...Show more
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens; Peter Washington (Introduction by)
$38.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
An unforeseeable story about life If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.-Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop The adventures of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London, that go on a journey with no destination. The novel focuses on the p ...Show more
The Prince and the Pauper by Christopher Paul (INT) Mark; Curtis Twain
$19.95 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels | Series: Modern Library Classics
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald (Translator)
$9.95 AUD
Category: New Classics | Series: Classics Library
In the renowned translation by Edward FitzGerald, with an introduction by Professor Cedric Watts. Here is Edward FitzGerald's original translation of the Rubáiyát, the collection of poems attributed to the Persian astronomer and mathematician, Omar Khayyám. FitzGerald's distinctive version (1859) ...Show more
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller; James Berger (Editor, Preface by)
$22.95 AUD
Category: Don't use | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
THE 100th YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION The Story of My Life, a remarkable account of overcoming the debilitating challenges of being both deaf and blind, has become an international classic, making Helen Keller one of the most well-known, inspirational figures in history. Originally published in 1903, K ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
$25.00 AUD
Category: Don't use | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on one day in June 1904. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature and was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemin ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$6.95 AUD
Category: Don't use | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: good-very good
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