Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way ...Show more
The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Divine Comedy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through the first seven levels, Dante observes the sinners w ...Show more
The Best of Jules Verne - Three Complete, Illustrated Novels, with Original Illustrations by Jules Verne
$60.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: The\Cairo Trilogy
THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR. 'A masterpiece' - The Times 'The Arab Tolstoy' - Simon Sebag Montefiore Sugar Street, the climactic final book in the classic Cairo Trilogy, is the captivating story of a family struggling to change with the rise of modern Egypt. ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories by Various
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
This exciting new collection celebrates the Spanish short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable work being written today. Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends hidden gems and old favourites, surprising new voices ...Show more
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
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