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The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was still basking in the glories of the Allied victory, it altered forev ...Show more
The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery behind the BBC TV Series The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William t ...Show more
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
The incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri.'The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy Tan'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's ...Show more
The Nargun and the Stars by Patricia Wrightson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: UQP Children's Classics Ser.
When Simon Brent's parents are killed in a car accident he is taken to live with his mother's second cousins, Edie and Charlie, on on Wongadilla, their 500 acre sheep run in the Hunter Valley. Simon with his city attitudes feels like an outsider, unable even to bring himself to call his cousins by name. ...Show more
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Wh ...Show more
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind by Simone Weil; T. S. Eliot (Foreword by)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a ...Show more
The Night Before Christmas PB (Illus. by Robert Ingpen) by Clement C. Moore
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books Paper Back | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse...' This picture book edition brings together the classic verse with illustrations by Robert Ingpen that capture the magic of Christmas. 'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house N ...Show more
The Nose: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #46 by Nikolai Gogol
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
This is the story of a nose. No, really -- it's the story of a nose that leaves the face of an official in St. Petersburg (the Russian St. Petersburg, the one in Florida wasn't even a proper village when Gogol was alive). The nose leaves this man's face and wanders off to have a life of its own. It doe ...Show more
The Nun by DIDEROT DENIS
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and theunnatural life ...Show more
The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann; Carly Gledhill (Illustrator)
$12.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Penguin Bedtime Classics Ser.
Bedtime Classics- charmingly illustrated board book editions of perennial favorites, simplified for the youngest readers! Bedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character-driven narratives and colorful illustration. Designed to be the perfect one minute ...Show more
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Noble Prize for Literature. Here, is a perfectly crafted story is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty ...Show more
The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Nonsense Poetry by Edward Lear
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Category: Poetry | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
Written for the poet John Addington Symonds's young daughter Janet while she was ill and confined to her bed, 'The Owl and the Pussycat' sees the two enamoured animals sail away in a boat "for a year and a day / To the land with the bong tree grows", where they get married. Long considered one of the n ...Show more