The Idea of Perfection: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Kate Grenville's Orange-Prize winning novel The Idea of Perfectionis the story of the small town of Karakarook, and of Douglas Cheeseman and Harley Savage--two people who seem the least likely in the world to fall in love. Unlike Felicity Porcelline, a woman dangerously haunted by the idea of perfection ...Show more
Fragments by Heraclitus
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Acclaimed poet Haxton presents a powerful free-verse translation of all 130 surviving fragments of the teachings of Heraclitus, with the ancient Greek originals beautifully reproduced en face.
Farewell My Lovely: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler This is one of Chandler's most famous crime novels featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, who's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thi ...Show more
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical, world-weary gumshoe. Hired by the crippled General Sternwood to shake off a blackmailer, Marlowe also has to deal with the general's two rebellious daughters, the gamb ...Show more
The High Window: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The High Window by Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe's client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. Easy. Probably too easy. Unfortunately, each time the Doubloon pops up, so does a murder. That's unlucky f ...Show more
Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Gripis regarded as a masterpiece - the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music, friendships, ...Show more
Puberty Blues by Gabrielle Carey, Kathy Lette
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
I don't recall reading Puberty Blues so much as devouring it. I was about thirteen, alone in my bedroom with the door firmly shut. I was fascinated. Kylie MinogueA revolutionary and timeless book.'By day, we were at school learning logarithms, but by night - in the back of cars, under the bowling alley, ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recomm ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
There will never be a man in this world who can truly love me, no matter how much I learn about the world. "I need so much!'" S&S Sense and Sensibility, by Jane AustenJane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility is one of her best-known works. On the title page, "By a Lady" appears where the autho ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
Charlotte Brönte (1816-1855) fue una escritora británica, hermana de de Anna y Emily Brönte. Su obra más importante es la novela Jane Eyre, en la que se perciben ciertos rasgos autobiográficos.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888). Written and published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, the novel follows the lives of four sisters -- Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March -- and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buch ...Show more