A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Vintage Past) by Julian Barnes
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10 Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but ...Show more
A Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics
The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth also have themes which stress the value of goodwill towards those who are less fortunate. While providing serious insights into the life of the poor in the Victorian age, Dickens contrives to give his readers three stories eminently suitable for family entertainm ...Show more
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
$30.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Every Christmas, the Morgan Library Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its extraordinary collection: the original manuscript of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol with its detailed emendations, deletions and insertions in Dickens' hand. Here, for the first time in a beautiful trade ...Show more
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pulp! The Classics
Christmas?! What a load of Humbug. Mistletoe and Wine just don't do it for Scrooge; he's a workaholic miser with an attitude problem. If he doesn't change his ways, he'll end up with no friends and Tiny Tim won't last the year. Let's hope some spooky night-time visitors can put the jingle back in his be ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps by Charles Buchan
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
When Richard Hannay fi nds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that his life is in danger. Scudder had previously revealed that he was investigating a ring of German spies, who were conspiring to sabotage Britain's war capability. Hannay become ...Show more
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics
First published on December 19th, 1843, A Christmas Carol was an instant classic upon its publication as Londoners thronged to hear Dickens read it in person and bought out the first printing in days. Its reception was so ecstatic it was credited with helping to re-interest the Victorians in Christmas t ...Show more
30-Second Shakespeare The 50 Most Significant Ideas, Themes and Events, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Ros Barber; Mark Rylance (Foreword by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: 30 Second Ser.
The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words an ...Show more
Meet Snugglepot & Cuddlepie (Board Book) by May Gibbs (Illustrator)
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: May Gibbs Gumnut Babies Ser.
Before dawn, when everyone was still asleep, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie crept out of bed... 'I want to see a human!' said Snugglepot. 'But only in the distance,' added Cuddlepie. Join Snugglepot and Cuddlepie-May Gibbs' endearing gumnut babies-as they go on an Australian bush adventure.
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' - these are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, o ...Show more
HG Wells Classic Collection by H.G. Wells
$59.99 AUD
Category: Classics
This collection includes The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon and The Invisible Man, all collected in a stunning leather-bound omnibus. Five of the best science fiction novels by the Grandfather of Science Fiction: unsurpassed in their timeless ...Show more
Black Beauty (Templar Classics) by Anna Sewell
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Templar Classics
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as historical in the ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice (Faux Leather Edition): Design by Coralie Bickford-Smith by Jane Austen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Jane Austen's timeless masterpiece, now in a beautiful new hardcover edition. Part of a special set of 10 hardcover classics, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, that innovatively use foil and a special new binding material to create a highly collectible set. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligib ...Show more