The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins by Donald Horne
14.99 AUD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "This often-oversimplified classic raises difficult questions about Australia's elites that are still worth asking. Are Australians, for example, still 'a largely non-contemplative people' who have "a limited view of the pos ...Show more
Steppenwolf: Popular Penguins by Hesse Hermann
12.99 AUD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'The unhappiness that I need and long for . . . is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.' Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw hi ...Show more
Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler
34.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
"A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, and invasion that is the one-thousand year story of Constantinople. A truly marvelous book." --Simon Winchester Ghost Empire is a rare treasure--an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, narrated by a master storyteller. ...Show more
Collins Classics - The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
9.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Meet little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. Since their first appearance they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures-in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their Wild Wood-continue to capture readers' ima ...Show more
Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe: 25 Essential Poems by Van Cleave, Ryan G
34.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
Age range 7 to 10In this gorgeously illustrated collection of poems, readers are introduced to twenty-five of Poe's most beloved works, each illustrated with stunning, full-colour collage artwork. Brief commentary and helpful definitions accompany each poem, making The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe among ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer Homer, Homer, Homer
22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
The Odyssey is a classic poem written by Homer that consists of 12.110 verses. It is unique already in that it has reached our days in its original form. This poem is a genuine revelation of the poetic thought of ancient Hellas....After the Trojan War, most of the survived Greek leaders returned by sea ...Show more
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
Takes reader into the heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty percent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as abominations.
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'I will not read it; I should never sleep again' A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immoral and decadent on first publication in 1894, Machen's wei ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!' she exclaimed. 'Nor will I for a minute'. Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a proud working woman whose life is complicated by three different men - respectable farmer Bold ...Show more
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: Popular Penguins by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
14.99 AUD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
This brutal glimpse of Russia under Stalin shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibilities of a nail, a piece of string or a single match in a time where survival is all. Enter a ...Show more
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Paris in the twenties- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and t ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
16.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself' Passionate, poetic and revolutionary, Jane Eyre is a novel of naked emotional power. Its story of a defiant, fiercely intelligent woman ...Show more