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A Nietzsche Reader by Friedrich Nietzsche
$12.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Secondhand. Selected and Translated with an Introduction by R. J. Hollingdale.The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The G ...Show more
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
$17.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspire ...Show more
A Place Of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
An extraordinary work of historical imagination - this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up the 4th Estate Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titl ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by James Joyce
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing extravagant outfits and playing dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids committment, gripped by the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake.
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Baker Street Classics Ser.
Unlikely yet complementary flatmates, detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson collaborate to solve the murder of a young man whose corpse is found in an abandoned house. Through deductive reasoning and scientific inquiry, the pair reveal the roots of the man's murder extend to the Salt Lake Valley ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Series
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes' fortunes become inextricably intertwined with those of two men, the heroic aristocra ...Show more
A Thousand Acres - Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett by Jane Smiley; Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * The only hardcover edition of the "powerful and poignant" twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear (The New York Times Book Review). * EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. * With a new introduction. This powerful novel centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who dec ...Show more
Adventure Word Cloud Boxed Set (Peter Pan, Jungle Book, Treasure Island, Call of the Wild) by Editors of Canterbury Classics
$99.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Jump into thrilling adventures with this Word Cloud Boxed Set There are so many adventures to choose from in this exclusively selected boxed set Four special-edition Word Cloud Classics are included: Call of the Wild and Other Stories, The Jungle Book, Peter Pan, and Treasure Island. Readers will b ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop ; G. K. Chesterton (Introduction by);
$32.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Dover Children's Classics Ser.
Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, and don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs These simple allegories -- abounding in paradoxes, ambiguities, and ironies -- embody great truths. Attributed to a legendary storyteller of ancient Greece, they speak to readers and listeners of all ages and cultur ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
$17.99 AUD
Category: Myths, Fable & Fairy Tales | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
The original "Aesop Fables", introduced by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick. Over two hundred familiar tales from "Look Before You Leap" and "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" to much less familiar tales, each with its own sharply pointed moral. Puffin Classics come with additional and material including auth ...Show more