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A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Dafoe; Jason Goodwin (Introduction by)
$18.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
A Vivid Recounting of the Great Plague of London "But it was impossible to make any impression upon the middling people and the working labouring poor. Their fears were predominant over all their passions, and they threw away their money in a most distracted manner upon those whimsies." ? Daniel Defoe, ...Show more
Collected Stories by Franz Kafka
$42.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Franz Kafka's imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent t ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; Tobias Smollet (Translator); David Whitlock (Introduction by)
$6.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: good
Don Quixote The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, S ...Show more
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
$24.99 AUD
Category: Self Development | Series: Modern Library Classics | Reading Level: very good
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus's insights and advice - on everything from living in the world to ...Show more
Middlemarch (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Eliot
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collector's Library Classics
'If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life...? Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they, and the other inhabita ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry Carlisle (Translator)
$7.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Classics Library
In The Idiot, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become riva ...Show more
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics
This edition features newly commissioned endnotes.
The Lady in the Lake, the Little Sister, the Long Goodbye, Playback - Volume 2 by Raymond Chandler; Tom Hiney (Introduction by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form. His last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savour the unique and compelling fictional world that made his works modern classics.The Lady in the Lak ...Show more
The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by HAMMETT DASHIELL
$27.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century.'His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow' IndependentSam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has el ...Show more
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald (Translator)
$7.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Classics Library
In the renowned translation by Edward FitzGerald, with an introduction by Professor Cedric Watts. Here is Edward FitzGerald's original translation of the Rubáiyát, the collection of poems attributed to the Persian astronomer and mathematician, Omar Khayyám. FitzGerald's distinctive version (1859) ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$7.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: good-very good
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes.At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly en ...Show more
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