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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; Tobias Smollet (Translator); David Whitlock (Introduction by)
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Don Quixote The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, S ...Show more
Hard Times by Charles Dickens; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Maurice Greiffenhagen (Illustrator); F. Walker (Illustrator); Dinny Thorold (Intro and Notes by)
$6.50 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence, his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of huma ...Show more
Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben
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Category: Animals | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Mother deer that grieve? Horses that feel shame? Squirrels that adopt their grandchildren? We humans tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings intensely and consciously. But have you ever wondered what's going on in an animal's head? More and more researchers are real ...Show more
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same da ...Show more
Rome Stories by Jonathan Keates (Editor); TBC Staff
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Category: General History | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
From Plutarch to Pasolini, from Henry James to Alberto Moravia, this collection of classic tales of the Eternal City draws on a wide range of brilliant writers from ancient times to the present. A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology. EVERYMAN'S POCKET CLASSICS. During its three-thousand-year his ...Show more
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
On the 150th anniversary of artist Arthur Rackham's birth, a gorgeous hardcover - the only one in print - of his delightfully spooky illustrated edition of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy ...Show more
The Complete English Works by George Herbert; Ann Pasternak Slater
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
In George Herbert (1593-1633), profound religious sensibility is richly allied with a playful wit and with literary and musical gifts of the highest order. Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns and sonnets to "pattern poems," the shapes of which reveal their sub ...Show more
The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hasek
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics S.
Set in the Central Europe of old, this anti-war novel features a simple soldier whose determination to survive brings into question the powerful social and political institutions he confronts. A portrait of a "little man" waging his own war against authority, it becomes a satire on the old regime.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald (Translator)
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
In the renowned translation by Edward FitzGerald, with an introduction by Professor Cedric Watts. Here is Edward FitzGerald's original translation of the Rubáiyát, the collection of poems attributed to the Persian astronomer and mathematician, Omar Khayyám. FitzGerald's distinctive version (1859) ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Peter Merchant (Intro and Notes by)
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Too often overshadowed by her sister's more famous novels of passionate romance, Anne Bronte's novel is shockingly contemporary in its concerns, daring in its conception and uncompromising in its realistic portrayal of an abusive husband and a woman's will to survive.When the mysterious and beautiful yo ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes.At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly en ...Show more
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