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Sir Philip Sidney - The Major Works by Philip Sidney; Katherine Duncan-Jones (Editor)
$24.95 AUD
Category: International Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney's poetry and prose--all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies--that reveals the essence of his work and thinking. Born in 1554, Sir Philip Sidney was hailed as the perfect Renaissance patron, soldier, lover, a ...Show more
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
$18.95 AUD
Category: International Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Robert Louis Stevenson's short novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886, became an instant classic, a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare whose hallucinatory setting in the back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. Its revelatory ending is one ...Show more
The Bible: Authorized King James Version by God
$42.95 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. ...Show more
The Collected Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: International Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of London, but as the children for whom he invented the stories grew older, so too did Peter, reappearing ...Show more
The Confessions by St Augustine
$19.95 AUD
Category: International Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high ...Show more
The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I do not know that one ought to be surprised at anything.' The Duke of Omnium is overwhelmed by the death of his vivacious wife, Lady Glencora. Once the British Prime Minister, he is now in sole charge of his three wilful children. Lord Gerald has been sent down from University; Lord Silverbridge ha ...Show more
The Flowers of Evil with parallel french text by Charles Baudelaire
$17.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer
$21.95 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Shewring's superb prose translation comes as close to the spirit of the original Greek as our language will allow.
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
$21.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.' When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a deba ...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
Vathek by William Beckford
$19.95 AUD
Category: Horror | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant; and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!' The Caliph Vathek is dissolute and debauched, and hungry for knowledge. When the mysterious Giaour offers him boundless treasure and unrivalled power he is willing to sac ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$27.95 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. Tolstoy's epic masterpiece captures with unprecedented immediacy the broad sweep of life during the Napoleonic wars and the brutal invasion of Russia. Ball ...Show more