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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A group of people have little in common except that they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, whose presence changes their lives.
The Heike Story by YOSHIKAWA EIJI
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
The Heike Story is a modern translation of a Japanese classic. Kyoto in the twelfth century was a magnificent city, but crime, disorder, and lust were rampant. The people were abused by the nobility, while armed Buddhist monks terrorized court and commoner alike. In despair, the Emperor called upon ...Show more
The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
The Hobbit is the unforgettable story of Bilbo, a peace-loving hobbit, who embarks on a strange and magical adventure. A timeless classic. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive ...Show more
The House on the Hill by Cesare Pavese
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A devastating novel set in wartime Italy from the great twentieth-century writer, in a new translation by Tim ParksJune, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing industrial Turin; Fascist Italy seems to be on its knees. Corrado, a teacher, is staying in relative safety in the hills above the city. He has no at ...Show more
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo; Isabel F. Hapgood (Contribution by)
$12.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Clydesdale Classics Ser.
This historically significant novel of love and betrayal led to a renewed interest in preserving the grand architecture of Paris. Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame was written in 1831, at a time when the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was falling into disrepair. This epic novel helped spark a pr ...Show more
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Word Cloud Classics) by Isabel F. Hapgood (Translator); victor Hugo
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
This historically significant novel of love and betrayal led to a renewed interest in preserving the grand architecture of Paris. Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame was written in 1831, at a time when the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was falling into disrepair. This epic novel helped spark a pre ...Show more
The IPCRESS File (#1) by Len Deighton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, Guardian A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinist ...Show more
The Idea of Perfection: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
$14.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Kate Grenville's Orange-Prize winning novel The Idea of Perfectionis the story of the small town of Karakarook, and of Douglas Cheeseman and Harley Savage--two people who seem the least likely in the world to fall in love. Unlike Felicity Porcelline, a woman dangerously haunted by the idea of perfection ...Show more
The Iliad (Homer) Translated by Robert Fagles by Homer
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A work of tremendous influence that has inspired writers from his ancient Greek contemporaries to modernist writers such as T.S. Eliot, Homer's epic poem "The Iliad" is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in "Penguin Classics". One of the foremost achievements in W ...Show more
The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano: The Black History Classic by Olaudah Equiano
$20.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Capstone Classics Ser.
DISCOVER THE INDIGNITIES AND REALITIES OF SLAVERY FROM A CAPTIVATING FIRST-HAND NARRATIVEOlaudah Equiano?s interesting narrative is an astonishing first-hand account of kidnapping, enslavement and eventual emancipation that has horrified and enlightened readers for over 200 years. The Interesting Narrat ...Show more
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is against the match and enlists the help of her confessor to come between them. Schedoni, previously a lead ...Show more
The Journals of Captain Cook by Captain James Cook
$27.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Captain Cook's Journals provide his vivid first-hand account of three extraordinary expeditions. These charted the entire coast of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, and brought back detailed descriptions of Tahiti, Tonga and a host of until then unknown islands in the Pacific. The journals am ...Show more