Dracula by Bram Stoker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman Library
Take a first BITE out of gothic classics with this "charming, age-appropriate" (Foreword) little book--perfect for little hands! When a mysterious client invites Jonathan Harker to Transylvania, the young realtor doesn't hesitate to travel to Count Dracula's spooky, crumbly castle. But the count has st ...Show more
The Odyssey - Trans. by Dr. Wilson by Homer; Emily Wilson (Translator)
$15.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Norton Library
Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus's long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays, and perils he faced at every turn. Homer's classic poem features Odysseus's encounters with the beautiful nymph Calypso; the queenly but wi ...Show more
Music Stories by EVERYMANS LIBRARY; Wesley Stace (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Variations on a musical theme by a striking range of authors, among them Flaubert, Turgenev, Proust, Nabokov, Katherine Mansfield, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Amit Chaudhuri, Bernard MacLaverty and Maya Angelou. Wesley Stace's attractive medley embraces musical genres from Virginia Woolf's 'A String Qu ...Show more
Speak, Bird, Speak Again - Palestinian Arab Folktales by Ibrahim Muhawi; Sharif Kanaana; Alan Dundes (Foreword by); Ibtisam Barakat (Foreword by)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Mythology
By combining their expertise in English literature and anthropology, Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana bring to these folktales an integral method of study that unites a sensitivity to language with a deep appreciation for culture. As native Palestinians, the authors are well suited to their task. Over ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson
$31.95 AUD
Category: Classics
The Odyssey is a poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. In his absence, it is assumed Odysseus has died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemac ...Show more
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Big Brother is Watching You.’ Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people ...Show more
A Fortunate Life by A B Facey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
First sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer, farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then being rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy. He survived Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, lost a son in the Second World War ...Show more
A Room of One's Own: Popular Penguins by virginia woolf
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and why neither of them could have written War and Peace, over the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (and imaginary) sister, over t ...Show more
Aesop's Fables Illustrated by Aesop
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
This illustrated collection includes hundreds of fables that have influenced our world for centuries.The stories attributed to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in Greece around 620-564 BCE, were originally passed on through oral tradition before first being transcribed several centuries after hi ...Show more
African Ghost Short Stories by Nuzo Onoh (Foreword by); Divine Che Neba (Introduction by); Chinelo Onwualu (Associate Editor)
$52.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Gothic Fantasy Ser.
Following the hugely successful Black Sci-Fri Short Storiesand Asian Ghost Short Stories, comes this deluxe edition of new African writing and tales rooted in ancient culture. This collection explores the deep-seated supernatural element in African storytelling - whether reaching back to the spirits, an ...Show more
Algernon Blackwood Horror Stories by FLAME TREE STUDIO
$52.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Gothic Fantasy Ser.
A chilling new collection of supernatural tales from the Victorian master of horror, and the subtle manipulation of dread. Algernon Blackwood, a founding father of modern ghost and horror stories, is one of the great horror writers of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. With M.R. James, William Hope ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more