Gods and Goddesses (Greek Myths) - (Macmillan Collectors Library) HB by Jean Menzies (Editor)
24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and wonderfully strange; their lives intertwine with mortals and their behaviours fluctuate wildly from benevolent to violent, from didactic to fickle, from loving to enraged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a ser ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
65.95 AUD
Category: Classics
After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches in medias res towards the end of the Trojan War between the Trojans and the besieging Greeks. Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, offers the Greeks wealth for the return of his daughter Chryseis, held captive by Agamemnon, the Greek leader. Although m ...Show more
Chinese Myths & Folk Tales by Barnes & Barnes & Noble (Compiled by)
49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Collectible Editions Ser.
Chinese culture is rich with marvelous folklore, and this exquisitely designed collection draws on that magnificent historical repository. It features more than 200 fables and tales chosen from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and other classic compendiums. Here are legends of ancient demons, str ...Show more
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I pay very little regard!to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.' Humble and lowly, a young Fann ...Show more
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, f ...Show more
Kangaroo - Text Classics by D. H. Lawrence
12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
After the Great War, Richard Lovat Somers, a writer, and Harriet, his wife, leave disillusioned Europe for Australia. There Somers falls into the company of charismatic fascist 'Kangaroo'. The young writer struggles with his past and his personal ideology as he finds himself in a deadly tug-of-war betwe ...Show more
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie (Translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux's mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother's condition, she had refused to fathom, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to reco ...Show more
The Orchard Book of Greek Myths (HB) by Geraldine McCaughrean
34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Celebrating the 21st birthday of this highly-respected introduction to the best-loved Greek stories, this new edition is generouslyl reformatted and has a beautiful new cover. Geraldine McCaughrean's elegant retellings continue to keep children captivated. Combined with Emma Chichester Clark's glorious ...Show more
Wish: Text Classics by Peter Goldsworthy
12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
'I'm not deaf, but I've always felt more at home in Sign. Both my parents are deaf. Deaf as posts. Deaf as adders, deaf as beetles. And proud as peacocks, Deaf Pride long before there was a word, or a sign, for it. I learnt to speak with my hands from birth; there was no other way of reaching my parents ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (Harper Muse Classics: Jane Austen Collection) by Jane Austen
49.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is now available in an exclusive collector's edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping and ribbon marker, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Austen fans who appreciated the Seasons collection will love ...Show more
Moral Hazard: Text Classics by Kate Jennings
12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
I disapproved of bankers, on principle. Not that I knew any. Until this job, I had worked and made friends with people who shared my views. Mostly moral, mostly kind. An unlikely candidate, then, for the job of executive speechwriter, to be putting words in the mouths of plutocrats deeply suspicious of ...Show more
A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed thro ...Show more