Ulysses by James Joyce
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered to be one of the m ...Show more
The Book of Tea : Little Black Classic by Kakuzo Okakura
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.' In this charming book from 1906, Okakura explores Zen, Taoism, Tea Masters and the significance of the Japanese tea ceremony. ...Show more
Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs' Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone.
Possession: A Romance by A S Byatt
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Category: Classics
Possessionis an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets.Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and trag ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
"Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. ... It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." (Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.) "Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dal ...Show more
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics
'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' - Salman RushdieFrom the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond, living up in the trees. He walks through paths made from the t ...Show more
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of thi ...Show more
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
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Category: Classics
The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraor ...Show more
Little Women (Collins Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was a critically acclaimed bestseller upon its publication in 1868. It tells the story of sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March--each a young woman with a distinctive and relatable personality, a rare feature for a children's novel at the time. The novel continues to reso ...Show more
Journey from Venice: Popular Penguins by Ruth Cracknell
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Serene City beckons, promising Paradise regained for Ruth Cracknell and her husband, Eric, as they set forth on a carefully planned holiday. What they are seeking is time. Time to think, time to gaze, time for each other. But from the moment the holiday becomes an uncharted journey, their time is me ...Show more
Dracula (Collector's Edition) by BRAM STOKER
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
What is A Tale of Two Cities about : The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolut ...Show more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics
Follow Siddhartha on a journey toward peace and enlightenment in this gorgeous hardcover edition of Herman Hesse's lyrical masterwork. Herman Hesse's classic novel Siddhartha comes to you in this newly designed edition complete with full-color illustration and foil and debossed hardcover. In the journe ...Show more