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This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable ...Show more
Tiepolo Pink by Roberto Calasso
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Throughout his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, Proust repeatedly refers to colours as Tiepolo Pink or Tiepolo Red. Who exactly was the artist that he so memorable transformed into colour?The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, p ...Show more
Time without Clocks: Text Classics by Joan Lindsay
$12.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Time Without Clocks is a 1962 autobiographical novel by Joan Lindsay that recounts Lindsay's early years married to prolific Australian artist Daryl Lindsay.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first part of John le Carré's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game between the taciturn, dogged George Smiley and his wily Soviet counterpart. A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the Br ...Show more
Transit by Anna Seghers; Margot Bettauer Dembo (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY STUART EVERS: 'A genuine, fully fledged masterpiece of the twentieth century; one that remains just as terrifyingly relevant and truthful in the twenty-first'An existential, political, literary thriller first published in 1944, that explores the plight of the refugee with extraordinary com ...Show more
Treasure Island (Clothbound) by Robert Louis Stevenson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Complete and unabridged paperback edition. Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X," schoone ...Show more
Treasure Island (Puffin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
$9.95 AUD
$14.99 (33% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captain Flint, young Jim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he has discovered a map that will lead him to the fabled Treasure Island. But a host of villains, wild beasts and deadly savages stand between him and the stash of gold. Not to me ...Show more
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy by Len Deighton
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An action-packed Cold War thriller set in the deserts of North Africa A Soviet space scientist defects to win academic freedom, but western intelligence has other plans for him, and sends an unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File - to look after him. But what follows is a blo ...Show more
Vanity Fair (Clothbound Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
$35.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 'I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year, 'observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thack ...Show more
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
A finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, here is an evocative novel about female friendship in the glittering 1980s. Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a young model stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other ...Show more
Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more