The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Scott Fitzgerald; Robert Nippoldt (Illustrator)
$85.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A poetic portrait of the Roaring Twenties in New York City brought to dazzling life in this stunning collectors edition of a classic in American literature. Set in the unique atmosphere of the 1920s Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby explores the lure of decadence, superficiality, and the ...Show more
Enchanted Tales & Happily Ever Afters by Macmillan Collector's Library
$44.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Ten of the world's most famous and cherished fairy stories published in a beautiful, cloth-bound gift edition together with gorgeous, classic illustrations in colour and black and white throughout. We've all grown up with fairy tales, whether it be through children's books, on screen or in modern retell ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos ...Show more
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal reoccurrence. To read Labyrinths is to glide through time, space, mythology and philosophy, as Borges' ch ...Show more
The Inseparables: The newly discovered novel from Simone de Beauvoir
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- beautiful flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.The lost novel from the author of The Second SexWhen Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is small for her age, but walks w ...Show more
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is edited with a critical introduction by Peter Coveney. Mark Twain's story of a boy's journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed th ...Show more
Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold by Stephen Fry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
Mortals and Monsters. Quests and Adventures . . . There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes ...Show more
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this honest and stunning novel, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, B ...Show more
Purple Threads: First Nations Classics by Jeanine Leane, Evelyn Araluen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Winner of the David Unaipon Award, an engaging, moving and often funny yarn about growing up in the home of two Aunties running a sheep farm in rural Gundagai.Growing up in the shifting landscape of Gundagai with her Nan and Aunties, Sunny spends her days playing on the hills near their farmhouse and he ...Show more
Pygmalion: Popular Penguins by Bernard Shaw
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
A barbed attack on the British class system, Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his ...Show more
Cotton Comes to Harlem (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Chester Himes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Scams, heists and murders abound in a high-energy caper from one of the great Black American crime writers, now part of a new crime series in Penguin Modern ClassicsA preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope- the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when ...Show more
The Night of the Hunter (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Davis Grubb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A rediscovered diabolical slice of great American noir'What kind of a man would have his fingers tattooed that way? ... What kind of a man? What kind of a preacher?'One of the great chase novels, The Night of the Hunter centres on the ferocious, unforgettable figure of Preacher, a psychopath who relentl ...Show more