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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears th ...Show more
The Prophet (Collins Classics) by Kahlil Gibran
$5.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy/Religion | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
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The Puzzleheaded Girl (Text Classics) by Christina Stead
$12.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics Ser.
" I hate and despise business and anything to do with making money.' Do you think it's wrong?' It is the enemy of art.' Eighteen-year-old Honor Lawrence is out of place at the bank where she works. When she refuses to accept a promotion, despite her obvious poverty, her mentor, Augustus Debrett, doesn't ...Show more
The Rainbow Serpent by Dick Roughsey
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
A timeless classic from the Dreamtime. there are innumerable names and stories associated with the Rainbow Serpent, all of which communicate the significance of this being within Aboriginal traditions. Dreamtime stories tell how the Rainbow Serpent came from beneath the ground and created huge ridges, m ...Show more
The Rainbow Serpent 50th Anniversary Edition (HB) by Dick Roughsey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Celebrating fifty years - a timeless classic from the Dreamtime. Dreamtime stories tell how the Rainbow Serpent came from beneath the ground and created huge ridges, mountains and gorges as it pushed upward. The name also reflects the snake-like meandering of water across a landscape and the colour spec ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Hawthorne's greatest romance, The Scarlet Letter, is often simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and redemption. In his introduction, Michael J. Colacurcio argues that The Scarlet Letter is a serious historical novel. If Hawthorne's fiction rigorously and faithfully subjects Hester and ...Show more
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 1 : I Know My Own Heart by Anne Lister
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller ? and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. Th ...Show more
The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China by Jiang Ziya; Stefan Harvey (Translator); Anjie Cai Anderson (Translator); Mengchen Wang (Translator); George Fleming (Translator); Rory Weaver (Translator); Sun Tzu; Wu Qi; Wei Liao; Sima Rangju
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Arcturus Slipcased Classics Ser.
Despite being written so long ago, the theories expressed within The Art of War are still considered shrewd and penetrating, and are used today as a source of insight into office politics, business management and corporate strategy. The lessons in the text can be applied to many areas of life.
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate; Julian Fellowes (Introduction by)
$22.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest hunt of the season. An army of gamekeepers, beaters, and servants has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual, the gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowsh ...Show more
The Shooting Party by A.P. Chekhov
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Anton Chekhov's only full-length novel, this "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Shooting Party" is translated and edited by Ronald Wilks, with an introduction by John Sutherland. "The Shooting Party" centres on Olga, the pretty young daughter of a drunken forester on a country estate, and her fateful re ...Show more
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | 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 Story of a Nutcracker by Sarah Ardizzone (Translator); Alexandre Dumas
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | 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