The Wrong Turning - Encounters with Ghosts - Ghost Stories From World Literature by Stephen Johnson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Introduced and edited by broadcaster Stephen Johnson, a curated selection of chilling ghost stories from world literature. Why do people love ghost stories, even if they don't believe (or say they don't believe) in ghosts? Is it simply the adrenaline rush that comes from being mesmerized and terrified b ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics
Beautifully presented with striking covers, easy-to-read type and, where relevant, the original illustrations, these books will look good on any bookshelf.
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
This is a Pre-read / Used book. slight damage (front page cut) some slight foxing. WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by JESSIE L. WESTON
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Category: Classics
One of the best-known Arthurian stories - adapted many times into verse, prose, games, and even an upcoming film - this unabridged republication of the 1909 edition is beautifully bound and finished with a decorated hardcover. It recounts an adventure undertaken by King Arthur's famous nephew, Sir Gawai ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie have nothing in the world except the clothe ...Show more
Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Classics
Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithFilled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of loss and longing from one of Japan's greatest writers ...Show more
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi; translated by John Hooper & Anna Kraczyna
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A revelatory new annotated edition of the most translated Italian book in the world -- which has now spawned two new movie versions: a Netflix animated version co-directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro (voiced by Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, and Tilda Swinton) and a Disney+ live-action version ...Show more
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics
The story of Mowgli, the abandoned man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades, Mowgli encounters such unforgettable creatures as the bear Baloo, the graceful black panther Baghe ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
Dostoyevsky's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues-brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality-that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-centur ...Show more
The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works by A. C. Spearing
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Category: Classics
Although the exact identity of this text's author remains obscure, he was probably an English country parson of the late 14th century. The main theme of this book is that God cannot be reached by human intellect but only by a love that can pierce the "cloud of unknowing".
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
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Category: 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 Recently widowed, the unscrupulous and beautiful Lady Susan Vernon is determined to scheme her way t ...Show more
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
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This edition of Dwight Allen's acclaimed story collection, The Green Suit, ends with a new story, rounding out a dozen interlinked tales about a well-to-do Kentucky family called the Sackriders. The stories cover a period of forty years, from the Vietnam War to the Age of Foreclosure. Chief among the ...Show more