Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe (HB) by Edgar Allan Poe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University o ...Show more
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Popular Penguins by Mark Twain
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
By witnessing a murder, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn find themselves in a series of adventures that lead them to some frightening situations.
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Black Classics
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remar ...Show more
A Stranger in the House: From the author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR by Shari Lapena
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
'Shari expertly traps you, confounds you and leaves you gasping at the end. More, please . . .' FIONA BARTON'So many dizzying twists you'd better not drive after reading' LINWOOD BARCLAY'Smart, twisty thriller . . . It's taut, intelligent and compelling' HeatThe electrifying new thriller from Shari Lape ...Show more
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accide ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles: Popular Penguins by Arthur Conan Doyle
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body - this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su ...Show more
The Women in Black: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A classic novel by a superb observer of contemporary manners, The Women in Black illuminates on every page the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. It's Sydney in the late 1950s, and the Ladies' Cocktail Frocks department of the famous F.G. Goode department store is bracing itself for the Christmas rus ...Show more
Holding the Man: Popular Penguins by Timothy Conigrave
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
With honesty and insight Holding the Man explores the highs and lows of any partnership, and the strength of heart both men have to find when they test positive to HIV.The mid-seventies - at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Pride and PrejudiceBy Jane AustenElizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: ...Show more
The Harp in the South: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
An Australian classic, this is the story of the Darcy family who live in the Depression era tenements of Surry Hills, Sydney. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops, and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' ..... Gabriel García Márquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid, energetic, tender and unfor ...Show more