Collected Short Stories, Volume 3 by William Somerset Maugham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Maugham Short Stories
The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he d ...Show more
Sherlock HC Anthology by Otto Penzler (Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics
An anthology of stories inspired by the greatest detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes. The greatest detective of all time. In 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle put pen to paper and created a legend: Sherlock Holmes. His tall, slender, hawk-nosed figure with his deerstalker hat is instantly recognizable in ever ...Show more
Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Charles Dickens' "Sketches by Boz" foreshadows his novels in its profusion of characters, its glimpses of surreal modernity and its limitless fund of pathos and comic invention. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with notes and an introduction by Dennis Walder. Published under the pen-name 'Boz', ...Show more
Leave it to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
This book is a Blandings novel. Lady Constance Keeble, sister of Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, has both an imperious manner and a valuable diamond necklace. The precarious peace of Blandings is shattered when her necklace becomes the object of dark plottings, for within the castle lurk some well-co ...Show more
Ash Road: Text Classics by Ivan Southall
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
It's hot, dry and sweaty on Ash Road, where Graham, Harry and Wallace are getting their first taste of independence, camping, just the three of them. When they accidentally light a bushfire no one would have guessed how far it would go. All along Ash Road fathers go off to fight the fires and mothers he ...Show more
Fateless by Imre Kertesz
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
"While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the reality of those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertesz draws us one step closer". (Observer). Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the family timber business to the fir ...Show more
The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits ...Show more
Adam Bede by George Eliot
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur's seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond th ...Show more
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
With a new Introduction by Fay WeldonAs the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and the young wife of a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields and on river banks. When she receiv ...Show more
The Iliad: v.1 by Homer
$47.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the best of the Achaeans," over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result--a chain of ...Show more
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Faber Modern Classics by Mario Vargas Llosa
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Modern Classics Ser.
Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirtee ...Show more