The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
Enter a brilliant, sinister and wholly unpredictable world. Here you will find the suggestion of other-worldly goings on in a dark story about a swan and a boy; the surprising tale of a wealthy young wastrel who suddenly develops a remarkable new ability; and, meet the hitchhiker whose light-fingers sav ...Show more
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman; Robert Chandler (Translator); Elizabeth Chandler (Translator); Yury Bit-Yunan (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
'One of the great novels of the 20th century' ObserverIn April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history.Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers and spends a final night with his wife and ...Show more
Street Haunting (Little Clothbound Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.'The hour should be evening and the season winter, for in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the s ...Show more
Complete Stories by Kingsley Amis
$40.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis' short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. In "The 2003 Claret", ...Show more
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
A meticulously-observed tale of the clash between obligation and desire, Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" is edited with an introduction and notes by Kathryn Sutherland in "Penguin Classics". Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mans ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for reality, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is edited with an introduction and notes by Marylin Butler in Penguin Classics. During an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first t ...Show more
The New Annotated Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Leslie Robert Louis; Klinger Stevenson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
The definitive edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal tale of depraved murder and unrelenting horror, introduced by Joe Hill, annotated by Edgar-winner Leslie S. Klinger and illustrated with over 150 colour images.There's no question that The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the m ...Show more
The Beauties - Essential Stories by Anton Chekov; Nicolas Slater Pasternak (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
The essential edition of the greatest stories by the Russian master of the form Chekhov was without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its untidy complexity. His short stories, written throughout his life and newly translated for this essential collection, are exquisite masterpie ...Show more
Tarzan - The Lost Adventure by Edgar Burroughs; Joe Lansdale
$45.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
For nearly half a century, Edgar Rice Burroughs' final work, an unfinished Tarzan novel, was locked in a vault where it became the stuff of legend. In 1995, Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: The Lost Adventure enjoyed its Dark Horse debut as a series of four pulp-magazine format books. Now, one year later, ...Show more