Holocaust Island (First Nations Classics) by Graeme Dixon, Ali Cobby Eckermann
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Written when the author was in prison, this collection remains a poignant historical plea for Aboriginal justice - from Black deaths in custody to Land Rights - and bears witness to contemporary Indigenous issues.Holocaust Island was the inaugural winner of the David Unaipon Award in 1989. Graeme Dixon' ...Show more
Purple Threads: First Nations Classics by Jeanine Leane, Evelyn Araluen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Winner of the David Unaipon Award, an engaging, moving and often funny yarn about growing up in the home of two Aunties running a sheep farm in rural Gundagai.Growing up in the shifting landscape of Gundagai with her Nan and Aunties, Sunny spends her days playing on the hills near their farmhouse and he ...Show more
Stories of Books and Libraries by Jane Holloway
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happened in Elizabeth McCracken's eccentric library did not happen in real life - even down to the murder; and it is rumo ...Show more
Piglet Meets Hefalump by A. A. Milne
$9.95 AUD
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.
1984 by George Orwell
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
A well-priced edition of one of the greatest twentieth century novels, with a striking new jacket and an introduction by Charlotte Wood.Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in what remains of a Britain ravaged by revolution. His every move is monitored by the Thought Police, who are responsible ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
$17.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who makes a devilish pact never to grow old. Dorian Gray remains forever young, indulging in unspeakable pleasures while his portrait bears the mark of his corrupt existence. A beautifully decadent tale of the destructive allure of perpetual ...Show more
Summer by Edith Wharton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithA novella regarded by Edith Wharton as one of her very best, Summer tells the tale of forbidden sexual passion ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithThis candid portrayal of a woman who refuses to accept her allotted role as wife and mother caused an outcry wh ...Show more
The Prophet by KAHLIL GIBRAN
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Prophet, a masterwork by Kahlil Gibran, is one of our time's most treasured classics. It was first published in 1923 and has since been translated into over twenty languages, with over nine million copies sold in the United States alone.The Prophet is a compilation of philosophical, spiritual, and, ...Show more
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante Dante, Dante Alighieri
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Divine Comedy Ser.
The first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in whi ...Show more