Metamorphoses by Ovid
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Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising 11,995 lines, 15 books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.Although me ...Show more
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
$36.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
A beautiful hardback edition of the most famous anti-war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three m ...Show more
The Secret History: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
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Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. 'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Catherine Morland should know better. She's the very ideal of a nice, normal girl. But Catherine is cursed with an overactive imagination. She is also obsessed with lurid Gothic novels, where terrible things happen to the heroine. Which gets her into all sorts of trouble... When Catherine visits Bath a ...Show more
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classic Fiction
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.All for one, and one for all!The young D'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are 'the inseparables' - ready to sacrifice ever ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Puffin in Bloom Ser.
Continuing the wildly successful Puffin in Bloom line of classics--illustrated by Anna Bond, the artist behind the renowned lifestyle brand Rifle Paper Co. Though her sisters are keen on finding men to marry, Elizabeth Bennet would rather wait for someone she loves - certainly not someone like Mr. Fitz ...Show more
Juice by Tim Winton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Tim Winton
An epic novel of determination, survival, and the limits of the human spirit. This is Tim Winton as you've never read him before. Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive all night across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. From the vehicle they survey a forsaken place ...Show more
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter by Various
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
The ultimate festive anthology of the best Christmas stories of all time, selected from around the world Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the ...Show more
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Finally, and for the encouragement of people troubled with accents that cut them off from all high employment, I may add that the change wrought by Professor Higgins in the flower girl is neither impossible nor uncommon. The modern concierge's daughter who fulfils her ambition by playing the Queen of Sp ...Show more
My Brilliant Career: Text Classics by Miles Franklin
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither is it a novel, but simply a yarn - a real yarn. Oh!" Written with all the high spirits of youth, My Brilliant Career is the unforgettable tal ...Show more