We are What We Pretend to be: The First and Last Works by Kurt Vonnegut
$16.98 AUD
Category: Classics
Now in paperback: "our finest black-humorist" (The Atlantic Monthly) Kurt Vonnegut's first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be. Written to be sold under the pseudonym of "Mark Harvey," Basic Training ...Show more
Slapstick or Lonesome No More - Vintage Future by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Manhattan has become the Island of Death. The former President of the United States stands barefoot in a purple toga around a cooking fire in the lobby of the Empire State Building. He is Dr Wilbur Daffodil-II Swain and Slapstick or Lonesome No More! is his story - one of monstrous twins, orgies, reveng ...Show more
Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Children's Classics Ser.
Tales of Troy and Greece is the 1907 work by the famous author Andrew Lang. Lang draws on classical recounts to tell the story of the Homeric epic of the Trojan war. His book covers all the major events and characters from Paris, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, and Agamemnon, to the Amazons, t ...Show more
Fairy Tales from Around the World (Leather bound) by H. J. Ford (Illustrator); Andrew Lang (Compiled by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Collectible Editions Ser.
Fairy Tales from Around the World is a treasure trove of the world's best-loved fairy and folk tales. It features more than 100 fairy tales representing more than fifty nations, all selected from The Blue Fairy Book and eleven other collections compiled by Andrew Lang. The book also includes more than 1 ...Show more
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence
$25.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Skywriting by Word of Mouth by John Lennon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
This title is presented with an afterword by Yoko Ono and original illustrations by the author. John Lennon wrote the material collected in "Skywriting by Word of Mouth" during Yoko Ono's pregnancy with Sean Lennon. After John's assassination in 1980, his manuscript was stolen from the Lennon's home. "S ...Show more
The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories by Nikolai Leskov
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Leskov's short stories exploded the traditions of 19th-century Russian fiction. Innovative in form and playful in language, these 17 tales are peopled by outsized characters that include serfs, princes, military officers, Gypsy girls, wayward monks, horse dealers, nomadic Tartars, and garrulous storytel ...Show more
The Last Battle (Vol 7 The Chronicles of Narnia) HB by C. S. Lewis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The Chronicles of Narnia
A beautiful hardback edition of The Last Battle, book seven in the classic series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and colour interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. To my side, all true Narnians! Would you wait till your new masters have killed you all, o ...Show more
Picnic At Hanging Rock - Penguin Australian Classics by Joan Lindsay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
In 1900, a class of young women from an exclusive private school go on an excursion to the isolated Hanging Rock, deep in the Australian bush. The excursion ends in tragedy when four girls and a teacher mysteriously vanish after climbing the rock. Only one girl returns, with no memory of what has become ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
$11.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
With notes and an apparatus, a new translation of Hegel's essay "Machiavelli's The Prince and Italy," and the first pages of The Prince in the original Italian At the end of an industrious political career in conflict-riven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The ...Show more
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classic
Mum said war was a punishment form God for people's sins, so he'd better watch out. She didn't tell him what to watch out for, though. When the Second World War breaks outs, young Willie Beech is evacuated to the countryside. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of kind old ...Show more
A Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.' A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with the astronauts themse ...Show more