Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: NHB Classic Plays Ser.
This translation of Rostand's 19th-century play about the swordsman-poet with a nose too large to be taken seriously was first seen in the 1985 RSC production. This volume contains the full original text, slightly adapted and translated into verse by Burgess, who also writes the introduction.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Popular Penguins by Lewis Carroll
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author: Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and enemies) ...Show more
7 Dark Tales by Christine Grace; Wendy Straw (Illustrator)
$14.00 AUD
$27.99 (49% off)
Category: Classics
This collection of seven short stories is a startling and imaginative take on the fairytale form. Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, each narrative gently unfolds, reminiscent of ancient, oral storytelling. The reader is constantly taken in unexpected directions as the tales explore contemporary themes of ...Show more
Jane Austen's the History of England - Writings from Her Youth by Jane. Austen; Allyson D'Antonio (Commentaries by); Cassandra Austen (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The author of one of the greatest romance novels of all time, Pride and Prejudice, takes her readers on a satiric tour through England's history, mercilessly exploiting the comedic potential of human foibles within British royalty. Part of Jane Austen's Juvenilia of the 1790s, The History of England was ...Show more
Twelfth Night: Illustrated by Eric Ravilious by William Shakespeare
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A stunning facsimile of the 1932 edition of Twelfth Night illustrated by Eric Ravilious. Together with a newly commissioned introduction, this book includes a facsimile of one of Eric Ravilious’s finest illustrated works, first published by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1932 in a limited print run and no ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A new edition of Orwell's timeless dystopian classic, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor Since its first publication in 1949, Orwell's devastating expose of the totalitarian mind has established itself as the most influential political satire of the modern age. Winston Smith's doome ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
$34.95 AUD
Category: Classics
The bored wife of a bumbling provincial physician, Emma seeks to escape from the tedium of her life with romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs, but is ultimately doomed to disillusionment. Unable to come to terms with reality, Emma is a figure at once noble and banal, tragic and absurd. With her wre ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
The calamities that befall the hapless creatures of Aesop's Fables! The fox can't reach his grapes, then gets attacked by biting flies and loses his tail in a trap. And things don't go much better for the hare, who is chased relentlessly by a hound, barely escaping with his life-only to be beaten in a r ...Show more
Peter Pan (Signature Classics) by J. M. Barrie
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - including this highly anticipated edition of Peter Pan.The Darling children's lives take an extraordinary turn when Peter Pan loses his shadow in their nursery. . .'Second to the right ...Show more
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions) by Mark Twain
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Flexibound Editions Ser.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Chateau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of ...Show more
The Bell Jar: The Illustrated Edition by Sylvia Plath
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
One of our hand-picked classics that no home should be without, now with Beya Reba's beautifully atmospheric artwork. I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical n ...Show more