It's a Battlefield by Graham Greene
$4.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene' Time Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Comer. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues- ...Show more
Family Arsenal by Theroux Paul
$4.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order through the opium fog of his room. His sometimes bedmate, Mayo, has stolen a Flemish painting and is negotiating for publicity with "The Times". Murf the bomb-maker leaves his mark in red whilst his girlfriend Brodie bombs Euston.
The Locket of Dreams (Vintage Classics) by Belinda Murrell
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
'She didn?t know why she felt the urge to wear the old necklace. It just seemed to have a magnetic pull on her.? When Sophie wears the heart-shaped locket, she magically travels back to 1858 to learn the truth about her ancestor. Charlotte Mackenzie and her sister, Nell, live a wonderful life on a misty ...Show more
The Tree of Man by Patrick White
$4.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
"One of Patrick White s most loved novels in which he creates a memorable portrait of human resilience Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for companions, journeys to a remote scrubby patch of land that he has inherited in the Australian hills. When the land is cleared enough for a rudimentary hous ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Her last completed novel, marrying witty social realism to a 'Cinderella' love story, Jane Austen's "Persuasion" is edited with an introduction by Gillian Beer in "Penguin Classics". Anne Elliot, twenty-seven and still single, seems destined for spinsterhood. In her youth, she broke off an engagement to ...Show more
The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James
$4.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Mrs Gereth is convinced that Fleda Vetch would make the perfect daughter-in-law. Only the dreamy, highly-strung young woman can genuinely appreciate, and perhaps eventually share, Mrs Gereth's passion for her 'things' - the antique treasures she has amassed at Poynton Park in the south of England. Owen ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath : John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002) by John Steinbeck
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics
The Histories: Herodotus by Herodotus; Aubrey De Selincourt (Translator); A. R. Burn (Notes by, Revised by, Introduction by)
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Widely referred to as the "Father of History", Greek Historian Herodotus lived during the 5th century BC and "The Histories" is generally accepted as the first work of historical literature in Western Civilization. Departing from the ancient Homeric tradition of treating historical subjects as epically ...Show more
The Matisse Stories
$6.50 AUD
Category: Classics
This brilliant collection has been called "a masterpiece" by the Sunday Telegraph. Each of the three stories is touched in a different way by the paintings of Henri Matisse. Their subjects' lives unravel from simple beginnings -- a trip to the hair dresser, a cleaning woman's passion for knitting, lunch ...Show more
A Voyage From Plymouth to Melbourne in 1839: Jonathan Binns Were. 1964
$40.00 AUD
Category: Classics