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Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
$15.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. It opens with the Bishop of Barchester lying on his death bed; soon a battle begins over who will take over power, with key players including the rather incompetent Dr Proudie, his fiendishly u ...Show more
Because A White Man'll Never Do It by Kevin Gilbert
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Kevin Gilbert's powerful expose of past and present race relations in Australia is an alarming story of land theft, attempted racial extermination, oppression, denial of human rights, slavery, ridicule, denigration, inequality and paternalism. First published in 1973, Gilbert's controversial account of ...Show more
Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh; Jane Goodall (Foreword by)
$37.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body and Spirit | Series: Thich Nhat Hanh Classics Ser.
First published in 1987 and translated into more than thirty languages, this spiritual classic reveals the connection between our own personal happiness and the state of the world around us.Thich Nhat Hanh's key practices are resented in simple and clear language, offering practical suggestions for how ...Show more
Black Beauty (Bath Treasury) by Anna Sewell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Bath Classics Ser.
Over fifty stunning illustrations from acclaimed artist Christian Birmingham bring this treasured classic new life. When Black Beauty was born one sweet spring day, he could not have imagined the life ahead of him. Following his mother's advice to do his work with a good will, he enjoys the adventures ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
John Flory is a disillusioned timber merchant based in the remote town of Kyauktada in 1920s Burma. Whilst his English peers gather night after night to drink and gossip in their exclusive club, Flory has embraced local life - his best friend is Dr Veraswami and his mistress is Ma Hla May. The slow, sti ...Show more
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945 this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
$16.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a Welsh mountain village in 1939 and become closely involved with several unforgettable characters. Age 12+
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Christmas Carol (abridged ed. HB) by Charles Dickens; Robert Ingpen (Illustrator)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Palazzo Abridged Classics Ser.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it
City Of God by St Augustine
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and "City of God" is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of R ...Show more
Collins Classics - The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Collins Classics) by Mark Twain
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
★The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn★ Referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event of my whole life"; Ernest Hemingway declared that "all modern American literature stems from this one book," while T. S. ...Show more