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Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
In nineteenth century England, clever, high-spirited Elizabeth Bennet is pursued by a suitor who she finds snobby and contemptuous.
The Fat of the Land by John Seymour
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Category: Biography | Series: Nature Classics Library
In the 1970s, John Seymour's book, The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency was a huge, international best-seller, inspiring a new generation to "down-shift" to a new way of life. The book has remained in print ever since. But years earlier, Seymour had written and published The Fat of the Land, telling of ...Show more
The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hasek
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics S.
Set in the Central Europe of old, this anti-war novel features a simple soldier whose determination to survive brings into question the powerful social and political institutions he confronts. A portrait of a "little man" waging his own war against authority, it becomes a satire on the old regime.
The Histories by Herodotus; E. H. B (Editor)
46.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
The Histories is a book by a Greek historian Herodotus from Halicarnassus (V century BC), the first fully preserved historical and prosaic work in the European literature. It is the most valuable source of the early history of Greece and the East. Detailed descriptions and accurate observations are put ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry Carlisle (Translator)
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Category: No Category | 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 Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom and Selected Essays by Albert Camus
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
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The Revised Latin Primer by Benjamin Hall Kennedy
43.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
Described by Mary Beard in The Independent as 'the Rolls Royce of textbooks', Kennedy's classic 1888 guide has remained the pre-eminent Latin reference grammar in schools and universities for well over a century. This is a reissue of the first edition, which appeared the year before the author's death. ...Show more
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway; Nicholas Gaskill (Introduction by)
34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
"The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost." -- The Wall Street Journal One of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read The Sun Also Rises is a classic example of Hemingway's ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Peter Merchant (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Too often overshadowed by her sister's more famous novels of passionate romance, Anne Bronte's novel is shockingly contemporary in its concerns, daring in its conception and uncompromising in its realistic portrayal of an abusive husband and a woman's will to survive.When the mysterious and beautiful yo ...Show more
The Water Kingdom by Philip Ball
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Category: History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
A secret history of China - a fresh new way of thinking about a people, a civilisation, an epic story. The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the overwhelming complexity and teeming energy of the countr ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
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
Washington Square by JAMES HENRY
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Henry James' stories are classic gems of subtle wit and irony. Set in the exacting social landscape of New York City at the turn of the century, Washington Square is the tale of a wealthy but shy young woman caught between conflicting family expectations. John McDonough's warm narration traces her remar ...Show more