Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an intimate novel about human desire against the backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the Sixties.
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
An award-winning novel about the perils of motherhood in a failing healthcare system and a woman's fight against the social stigma of the Sixties.
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the hea ...Show more
William Blake: Poems (Vintage Classics) by William Blake; Patti Smith (Introduction by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"William Blake is one of Britain s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source o ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer Homer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
The IliadBy HomerAnd Achilles answered, "Most noble son of Atreus, covetous beyond all mankind, how shall the Achaeans find you another prize? We have no common store from which to take one. Those we took from the cities have been awarded; we cannot disallow the awards that have been made already. Give ...Show more
Playing Beatie Bow: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The game is called Beatie Bow, and the kids play it for the thrill of giving themselves a scare. It's Beatie Bow, risen from the dead When Abigail is drawn in, the game quickly changes from a harmless little scare to an extraordinary adventure, as she is transported to a place that is strangely familiar ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good-near fine
In this haunting, magical fairytale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and the Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with poetr ...Show more
Howl, Kaddish & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'The poem that defined a generation'Guardianon 'Howl' 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his n ...Show more
South: The Endurance Expedition: Popular Penguins by Ernest Shackleton
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Sir Ernest Shackleton's South is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. In 1914, Shackleton led a party of men hoping to be the first to traverse the Antarctic, but when their ship became crushed by ice 350 miles from land, the expedition soon became a matter of life and death. This is the ex ...Show more
Book of Longing: Popular Penguins by Leonard Cohen
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and M ...Show more
Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
In this collection of stories, Dahl tantalizes, amuses, and sometimes terrifies readers into a sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. Included in this collection are such notorious gems of the bizarre as "The Second Machine," "Lamb to the Slaughter," "Neck," and "The Landlady." Other stories explor ...Show more
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
$8.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony, established Hardy as a writer. Ho ...Show more