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Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans desc ...Show more
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
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Category: Classics
The story of the dissolution of the once aristocratic Compson family, told through the minds of three of its members, including the imbecilci Benjy - 'the tale told by an idiot'. In very different ways they prove inadequate to their own family history, unable to deal with either the responsibility of th ...Show more
Troy by Stephen Fry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
Following Top Ten bestsellers Mythos and Heroes, this third volume retells the epic tale of Troy The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whol ...Show more
7 More Dark Tales by Christine Grace; Wendy Straw (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics
This collection of seven short stories is a startling and imaginative take on the fairy tale form. Inspired by the tales of Hans Christian Andersen, each one takes strange, unexpected, and sometimes dark twists. The text is exquisitely written in prose poetry form with evocative and sometimes spine-chil ...Show more
A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley
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Category: Classics
In 1962, aged just 24, William Melvin Kelley's debut novel A Different Drummer earned him critical comparisons to James Baldwin and William Faulkner. Fifty-five years later, author and journalist Kathryn Schulz happened upon the novel serendipitously and was inspired to write the New Yorker article 'The ...Show more
Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
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Category: Classics
"The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale." - Barbara VanDenburgh, USA TodayNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf —and fifty years after t ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Classics
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. - "After Ford" - in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and operant conditioning that combine to profou ...Show more
Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Crime and punishment is probably Dostoevsky's most read and known novel and one of the most famous literary works of all time. Published in installments in 1866 in the journal «Russkij vestnik» («The Russian Messenger»), it is the story of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, which the author describes in a l ...Show more
Mermaid Singing / Peel Me a Lotus by Charmian Clift
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Category: Classics
Two classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the life she and her Australian family led in Greece in the 1950's in one volume. For Charmian Clift, Greece was the Promised Land. In 1954 she and her husband, George Johnston, abandoned their sophisticated London existence and set off with two new ...Show more
The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and taunting voices. Convinced that her housekeeper and husband are plotting against her, she descends into a terrifying world of sickness, pills and institutionalization. ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov; Will Self (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction - New York TimesWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELF The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in d ...Show more
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by: Ernest Hemingway