Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz- dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. Travelling upriver to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, w ...Show more
The Essential Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919 and ...Show more
The Man Upstairs by P. G. Wodehouse
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
Wodehouse's well-known gift for satisfying plots and comic surprises is evident on every page, but there are also signs of his debt to earlier writers in the realistic tradition. Set mainly in London or New York, many of the stories concern ordinary people - shopassistants, schoolmasters, secretaries, s ...Show more
Doctor Pascal by Emile Zola
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Doctor Pascal is the twentieth and final novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart series. Pascal Rougon has spent his life chronicling the hereditary patterns and illnesses of his family, using medicine to attempt cures, whilst his niece Clotilde places her faith in God. 'There's something of everything th ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities: Artisan Edition by Charles Dickens
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Harper Muse: Artisan Edition Ser.
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel written by Charles Dickens. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the novel tells the story of two men, Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, who look alike but are very different in character. Darnay, a French aristocrat, renounces his t ...Show more
The Great Gatsby (Vintage Deco) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Tiffany&Co. edition designed exclusively for Vintage ClassicsWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. ...Show more
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin; Bela Shayevich (Translator); Margaret Atwood (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-33 ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four [w Glover corrected last para] by George Orwell
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics
It is 1984. The world is in a state of perpetual war and Big Brother sees and controls all. Winston Smith, a member of the Outer Party and propaganda-writer at the Ministry of Truth, is keeping a journal he should not be keeping and falling in love with Julia, a woman he should not be seeing. Outwardly ...Show more
The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen: Selected and Introduced by Tessa Hadley by Elizabeth Bowen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A beautiful paperback edition of Elizabeth Bowen's short stories, selected and introduced by Tessa Hadley.'Bowen's stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them' VogueSELECTED AND WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEYA girl ...Show more
Bel-Ami by Guy De Maupassant,; Douglas Parmee (translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, "Bel-Ami" is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmee in "Penguin Classics". Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist ...Show more
Demian by Hermann Hesse
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Demian is a coming-of-age story that follows a young boy's maturation as he grapples with good and evil, lightness and darkness, and forges alternatives to the ever-present corruption and suffering that he sees all around him. Crucial to this development are his relationships with a series of older ment ...Show more
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Little Clothbound Classics) by Carson McCullers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Penguin Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love wit ...Show more