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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Clothbound Classics
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Chateau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Clothbound Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle
$37.00 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, ...Show more
The Iliad (Clothbound Classic) by Homer
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYHigh on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Clothbound Classic) by Thomas Hardy; Keith Wilson (Editor); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
At a country fair near Casterbridge in the fictional county of Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan. Drunk on rum-laced furmity he auctions her off, along with their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober the n ...Show more
The Odyssey (Clothbound Classic) by Homer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
'I long to reach my home and see the day of my return. It is my never-failing wish' The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monst ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
In The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a rand ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter by Various
$32.99 AUD
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
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Clothbound Classic) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Clothbound Classics
The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succès de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in exchange f ...Show more
The Prophet by KAHLIL GIBRAN
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
The Queen Of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Penguin Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith A countess with a card trick; love letters filled with deception; a desperate man with a pistol.'The Queen of Spades', one of ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Few children's classics can match the charm and originality of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, the unforgettable story of sullen, sulky Mary Lennox, "the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen." When a cholera epidemic leaves her as an orphan, Mary is sent to England to live with her rec ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
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Category: Winter 2024 Specials | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall By Anne Bronte is the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, dissolute husband, and who must then support herself and her young son. By challenging the prevailing morals of the time the novel caused a critic to pronounce it ''utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls' ...Show more