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Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankn ...Show more
Tropic Of Capricorn by Henry Miller
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, The Tropic o ...Show more
Ulysses - Second Edition by James Joyce; Jeri Johnson (Editor)
$22.95 AUD
Category: International Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'- What is your nation if I may ask, says the citizen.- Ireland, says Bloom. I was born here. Ireland.' Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel t ...Show more
'Unto This Last' & Other Writings by John Ruskin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the Middle Ages as a Utopia, yet his ideas had a considera ...Show more
Vanity Fair (Clothbound Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"Venus in Furs" describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This is a passionate and powerful portrayal of one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct hims ...Show more
Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian 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: International 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
War and Peace : (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) by Leo Tolstoy
$49.99 AUD
Category: International Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classics Ser.
War looms in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and when Napoleon invades Russia in 1812 it forever changes those whose lives it engulfs. Although told on a panoramic scale Tolstoy's epic novel focuses the chaos of battle, the horror of death and bloodshed, and the expression of the noble virtues of love and ...Show more
While the Billy Boils by HENRY LAWSON
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Imprint Classics Ser.
While the Billy Boils' includes Henry Lawson's classic story "The Union Buries Its Dead" - as well as "The Drover's Wife", "The Bush Undertaker", and "That There Dog of Mine". Stark, moving, and humming with life, these well known and loved stories bring us the bush of Australian legend, and the imagina ...Show more
Whispering in the Wind - Text Classics by Alan Marshall; Shane Maloney
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
First published in 1969, a charming children's classic. Peter lives in a bush hut with Crooked Mick, the greatest horse rider in all the world. One day Peter decides to go out and find a princess and rescue her from a dragon. With his horse Moonlight he sets out on his quest. Along the way he meets an a ...Show more
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Since 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends--Piglet, Owl, Tigger, and the ever doleful Eeyore--have endured as the unforgettable creations of A.A. Milne, who wrote this book for his son, Christopher Robin, and Ernest H. Shepard, who lovingly gave Pooh and his companions shape. These characters and their ...Show more