Category: Classics
Description: Lewis Carroll's beloved classic stories are reimagined in this deluxe illustrated gift edition from the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise, MinaLima-designed with stunning full color artwork and several interactive features. Orig ...Show more
Category: Feel Good Fiction
Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Loveis one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written.'Obsessed with sex!' said Jassy, 'there's nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I'm a pygmalionist.' In the end we got more information out of a boo ...Show more
Category: Feel Good Fiction
A sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars. Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connect ...Show more
Category: Classics
What is a Heffalump? Is it fierce? Is it fond of Pigs at all? Piglet bravely searches for the answers to these questions, and gets a big surprise.
Category: Classics
Daisy Dunn offers a deeply researched collection of stories reflecting the eclectic richness and depth of the classical literary canon. Striking a balance between the 'classic classic' (such as Dryden's translation of the Aeneid) and the less familiar or expected, Of Gods and Men ranges from the e ...Show more
Category: Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbiddin ...Show more
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
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
Category: Classics
In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here - its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and ...Show more
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
Scurry down the rabbit hole and step through the looking glass with this luxurious compilation of works from Lewis Carroll. Don't be late--it's a very important date Witty, whimsical, and often nonsensical, the fiction of Lewis Carroll has been popular with both children and adults for over 150 ...Show more
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Pat Carson?s old eyes were on me, looking for something.'Man is born unto trouble,? he said.I said, 'As the sparks fly upwards.?Deep lines at the corners of his mouth. 'Know your Job. Soldier. Policeman. Haven?t been a bloody priest too, have you??Anne Carson- fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted.The r ...Show more
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser.
VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A young m ...Show more
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassio ...Show more
