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The Small House at Allington (#5 Barsetshire Chronicles) by Anthony Trollope, Anthony Trollope
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
'Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a small house?' The Great House is home to Squire Dale, the Small House to his widowed sister-in-law, Mrs Dale, and her tow unmarried daughters, Lily and Bell. Both girls have two suitors: in Lily's case John Eames, a ...Show more
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
$14.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'In 1973 (Matthiessen) joined with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region called bharal. They also hoped to see the rare snow leopard, an almost mythical creature which Schaller once glimpsed on a previous visit. Matthiessen i ...Show more
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
$9.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' - these are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, o ...Show more
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
All that deep-rooted vitality flowered in her voice, her face, in her very finger-tips. She felt like a tree bursting into bloom'Thea Kronberg, a young girl from the small desert town of Moonstone, Colorado, has a great gift - her beautiful singing voice. This talent will take her all the way to the gre ...Show more
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
$14.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more
The Sonnets and a Lover's complaint (Clothbound Classic) by William Shakespeare; John Kerrigan (Editor, Introduction by); Coralie Bickford-smith (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful and tactile cloth. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written m ...Show more
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguins Classics Ser.
A key work in the German 'Sturm und Drang' movement, Johann Goethe's autobiographical epistolary novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" is a defining moment in early Romanticism, which has influenced writers from Mary Shelley to Thomas Mann. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated from with an intro ...Show more
The Story of a Nobody by Anton Chekhov; Hugh Aplin (Translator)
$12.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task - an ailing, world-weary "nobody" - seized with the purposelessness of life and a sense of his own impendin ...Show more
The Story of a Nutcracker by Sarah Ardizzone (Translator); Alexandre Dumas
$16.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
Discover the real story behind the famous Nutcracker Christmas ballet, as told by Alexandre Dumas 'How could you imagine, silly child, that this toy, which is made of cloth and wood, could possibly be alive?' The nutcracker doll that mysterious Godfather Drosselmeyer gives to little Marie for Christma ...Show more
The Story of the Amulet (Psammead #3) by Edith Nesbit
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Psammead Series, Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Story of the Stone, Vol 5: The Dreamer Awakes by Cao, Xueqin, Gao E
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
The Story of the Stone, also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. The fifth part of Cao Xueqin's magnificent saga, The Dreamer Awakes, was carefully edited and completed by Gao E some decades later. It continues the story of the changi ...Show more
The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (Barrington Stoke) by R.L. Stevenson
$18.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Dyslexia-Friendly Classics Ser.
Stevenson's classic story of split personalities lurking beneath the prim and proper morals of Victorian society. Now available in an accessible format for all readers.