The Prophet: The Complete Original Edition: Essential Pocket Classics (PB) by Kahlil Gibran
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Pocket Classics Ser.
A new edition of the beloved spiritual classicKahlil Gibran's The Prophet is a timeless classic, a guiding light of spiritual fiction that has shaped the hearts and souls of readers since it was first published in 1923. Translated into more than 40 languages around the globe, The Prophet is an inspirati ...Show more
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
$23.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Flexibound Pocket Editions
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date William Shakespeare wrote some of the greatest poetry in all world literature, in compact sonnets bursting with beautiful imagery and t ...Show more
Kafka Journal by Bodleian Library
$25.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Franz Kafka is best known as the author of The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle. Although he died before he had reached the age of forty, his groundbreaking work has left a profound cultural legacy and continues to influence writers and artists today.Kafka was a highly visual writer and he often ...Show more
Words from Hell - Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology by Jess Zafarris
$40.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. It's where Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots are shredded apart and stitched unceremoniously back together with misunderstood snippets of languages snatched from the wreckage of conques ...Show more
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov; Michael Glenny (Translator); Orlando Figes (Introduction by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Kiev - Kyiv - is in chaos. Russia has withdrawn from World War I but the Germans have set up a puppet government in Ukraine. Civil war rages- the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia, but the anti-revolutionary White Guard who have fled to Ukraine, are rallying to resist. In the meantime, Ukrainian na ...Show more
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 2 by Patrick McGuinness (ed)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates ...Show more
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 1 by Patrick McGuinness (ed)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. The first volume spans 400 years, taking the ...Show more
On Kim Scott : Writers on Writers by Tony Birch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'I value Kim Scott's fiction so highly because I feel that his approach is to put the flags aside. That Deadman Dance asks us not to consider who we were so much as who we could be, collectively, in the future.'Noongar writer Kim Scott has won the Miles Franklin Award twice for his novels. In this movin ...Show more
Words From the Heart - An Emotional Dictionary by Susie Dent
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Whether it's the distress of a bad haircut (AGE-OTORI) or longing for the food someone else is eating (GROAKING), the pleasure found in other people's happiness (CONFELICITY) or the shock of jumping into icy water (CURGLAFF), there are real words to pinpoint exactly how you feel and Susie Dent, Queen of ...Show more
Aesop's Fables Illustrated (Leatherbound Classics) by Aesop
$50.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
This illustrated collection includes hundreds of fables that have influenced our world for centuries.The stories attributed to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in Greece around 620-564 BCE, were originally passed on through oral tradition before first being transcribed several centuries after hi ...Show more
The Harp in the South: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
$15.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
An Australian classic, this is the story of the Darcy family who live in the Depression era tenements of Surry Hills, Sydney. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops, and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy ...Show more
Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an ...Show more