The Island of Doctor Moreau (pocket Penguin) by H. G. Wells
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'The eyes that glanced at me shone with a pale-green light' A crazed vivisectionist engineers a new super-breed of monstrous 'Beast Men' on a remote Pacific island, in H. G. Wells's Victorian scientific nightmare of man playing god. Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Peng ...Show more
A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst. It was his power that stupefied me and made me regard my knowledge as nothing more than hired cleverness he might choose to show off at a dinner party. A Boy's Own Story traces an unnamed narrator's coming-of-age during the 1950s. Beset by aloof parents, a crue ...Show more
The Happy Prince: A Children's Tale by Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
$21.99 AUD
Category: Classics
In a town where a lot of poor people suffer and where there are a lot of miseries, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter, meets the statue of the late _Happy Prince_, who in reality has never experienced true sorrow, for he lived in a palace where sorrow isn_t al ...Show more
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
A storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family is wrecked. Miraculously, all on board survive. Plotting, mistaken identities, bewitching love and drunkenness follow as the travellers explore the strange place of spirits and monsters on which t ...Show more
Macbeth - Penguin Classic by William Shakespeare
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war, witchcraft and bloodshed, Macbeth ...Show more
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson; Henrietta Twycross-Martin (Photographer)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Persephone Classics Ser.
Miss Pettigrew is a down-on-her-luck, middle-aged governess sent by an employment agency to work for a nightclub singer rather than a household of unruly children. Over a period of just 24 hours, her life is changed - forever.
Best Friends Library (Winnie-the-Pooh) by A. A. Milne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Winnie-the-Pooh
5 classic Pooh character stories to share in this keepsake gift set!* Pooh* Piglet* Tigger* Eeyore* Owl
A Tree for Christmas by Jane Riordan
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics
It wouldn't be Christmas without a Christmas tree but when Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet set off to find the perfect tree in the Hundred Acre Wood they soon run into difficulties ... But perhaps with the help of their friends Eeyore, Rabbit, Tigger and Owl, they'll be able to make this a Christmas to remem ...Show more
Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop:Text Classics by Amy Witting
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Isobel Callaghan is struggling to make a career as a writer in Sydney. She is isolated, poor and hungry, and fears she's going mad. Leaving her room in a boarding house in search of food, she has a breakdown on the way to the corner shop. Waking in hospital, Isobel learns that she will be confined to a ...Show more
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf's fantastical and enchanting novel, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. Orlando has always been an outsider...His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizab ...Show more
Midsummer Night #nofilter (Shakespeare in Texts) by William Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Shakespeare in Texts
"Imagine: What if the fairies and star-crossed lovers of the forest had smartphones? A classic is reborn in this fun and funny adaptation of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays! Four lovers who can't decide who they have a crush on. One mischievous fairy with a love potion. Total chaos in the fairy w ...Show more
Marrow by Yan Lianke
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials
In a small village in the Balou Mountains, Fourth Wife You despairs of what the future holds for her four mentally-impaired children. A cure for the family curse appears, but it will extract a price so primal and complete that no one can be expected to make it except, perhaps, for a mother. A chilling a ...Show more