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The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the story of Mattis, a mentally handicapped man who lives with and is cared for by his older sister, Hege. Within their isolated, lakeside existence, Mattis cannot make sense of his tangled thoughts, frightening apparitions, surges of emotion and clever insights. When a travelling lumberjack att ...Show more
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche
$16.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil. The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the author himself in the brilliant Attempt at a Self-Criticism, which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks by Angela Carter; Joan Acocella (Introduction by)
$20.75 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
In The Bloody Chamber, Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Riding's grandmother is stoned to death as a witch; a young music student is swept off her feet in Paris by a middle-aged aristocrat and transported to h ...Show more
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
Penelope Fitzgerald's final masterpiece. 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. The year is 1794 and Fritz, passionate, idealistic and brilli ...Show more
The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
$14.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sis with Jorge Luis Borges's 1957 compilation of 116 "strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination," from dragons and centaurs to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat and the Morlocks of H. G. Wells's ...Show more
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided to live their lives in a box on the street. Behind their cut-out eyeholes, they sit and watch from behind their four cardboard walls. Our nameless narrator, at first repulsed b ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: Read John Boyne's powerful classic ahead of the sequel ALL THE BROKEN PLACES by John Boyne
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone.' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ...Show more
The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey - the international bestseller - an explosive novel of sex, secrecy and escape. A woman finds her voice and leaves behind a book of lessons. It is the story of her secret self. On honeymoon, in the heat and shadows of sultry Marrakech, a conventional young wife makes a s ...Show more
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric; Misha Glenny (Introduction by)
$36.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
The town of Visegrad was long caught between the warring Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but its sixteenth-century bridge survived unscathed--until 1914 when tensions in the Balkans triggered the first World War. Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, The Bridge on the Drina brilliantly ...Show more
The Brothers Grimm: 101 Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
$24.99 AUD
Category: Myths, Fable & Fairy Tales | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
No home library is complete without the classics This new collection of stories from Brothers Grimm: 101 Fairy Tales is a keepsake to be read and treasured. They are the stories of characters we've known since childhood: Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella. But the works originally collected by ...Show more
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. This definitive collection reveals the dev ...Show more
The Call of the Wild - Puffin Classics by Jack London
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck mus ...Show more