The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light'. Enraptured by a young woman's account of the landscapes of Greece, Henry Miller set off to explore the Grecian countryside with his friend Lawrence Durrell in 1939. In T ...Show more
Winnie-the-Pooh Deluxe Complete Collection limited ed by A.a. Milne
$250.00 AUD
Category: Classics
The ultimate edition of some of the most famous children's stories and poems of all time, featuring The Bear for All Ages, Winnie-the-Pooh. The stylishly designed outer box has a sumptuous matt finish with gold and blue foil, with tree motif edging.The box opens to reveal a ribboned envelope containing ...Show more
Gobbolino the Witch's Cat by Ursula Moray Williams
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Category: Classics
No one could mistake Gobbolino for a simple kitchen cat, with his sparky whiskers and magic tricks, but that's just what the witch's kitten wants to be. Instead of learning how to turn mice into toads for the witch's brew, Gobbolino sets out on an adventure to find a family and a home of his own. Reissu ...Show more
Race: Vintage Minis by Toni Morrison
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals into inferiority and confusion. A friendship falls apart over ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classics
Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but wh ...Show more
Buddha at Bedtime: Tales of Love and Wisdom for You to Read with Your Child to Enchant, Enlighten and Inspire by Dharmachari Nagaraja
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Beautifully illustrated, charming and fun, this is an delightful collection of 20 bedtime stories guaranteed to entertain and encourage your kids.
Ramayana by Daljit Nagra
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Category: Classics
Attributed to Valmiki, thought to be India's first poet, the Ramayana's origins date back thousands of years when it was first committed to Sanskrit. Since then, generations of children the world over have grown up with its story of Rama's quest to recover his wife Sita from her abduction by Raavana, th ...Show more
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
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Category: Classics
Nick Hornby returns to his roots - music and messy relationships - in this funny and touching new novel which thoughtfully and sympathetically looks at how lives can be wasted but how they are never beyond redemption. Annie lives in a dull town on England's bleak east coast and is in a relationship with ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faith ...Show more
Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Harvest Book
Volume 7 of The Complete Works of George OrwellVolume 7 of The Complete Works of George OrwellComing Up for Air looks back from the sprawl of thirties housing estates, new arterial roads and the domination of the motor car, to an idealised golden England, largely rural and unmechanised when, in the nost ...Show more
Cinderella (My Very First Story Time) by Rachel Elliot
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Category: Classics | Series: My Very First Story Time | Reading Level: Children's - Kindergarten, Age 5-6
Poor Cinderella is made to sweep, cook and clean, and yet she always shows kindness to her mean stepsisters. This storybook boasts sparkles and spells, heroes and villains, and a triumphant happy ending. It's never too early to introduce children to the magic and wonder of fairy tales. Classic characte ...Show more