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Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
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Category: classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad'. Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full ...Show more
Jules Verne's Mikhail Strogoff by Jules Verne, Stephanie Smee (translator)
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Category: classics
Russia, late 19th century. The Empire is in great peril, and only one man can save it: the bold and resourceful young messenger Mikhail Strogoff. In a desperate race against time, he must face great dangers if he is to deliver his warning, as foreign armies mass on the border and a traitor lurks ready t ...Show more
Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley
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Category: classics | 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
Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
$25.45 AUD
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
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and the Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Boasting 24 of Sherlock Holmes's finest adventures, this edition combines two classic collections first published in 1894 and 1905. Highlights include "The Final Problem," where arch-criminal Moriarty apparently killed off the detective as well as his miraculous return in "The Adventure of the Empty Hou ...Show more
Mansfield Park CE by Austen J
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheer ...Show more
Persuasion CE by Austen J
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Category: classics
What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of ...Show more
Ghost Stories - Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense by Leslie S. Klinger (Editor); Lisa Morton (Editor)
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Category: classics
A masterful collection of ghost stories that have been overlooked by contemporary readers--including tales by celebrated authors such as Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton--presented with insightful annotations by acclaimed horror anthologists Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Mor ...Show more
Frankenstein - Puffin Clothbound Classics by Mary Shelley
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Category: classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Puffin Clothbound Classics - stunningly beautiful hardback editions of the most famous stories in the world Victor Frankenstein has made a terrible mistake. In his desperate pursuit to create life, he has created a monster. A monster which, abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone it meets, foll ...Show more
Friendship Word Cloud Boxed Set (Little Women, Alice in Wonderland, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables) by Editors of Canterbury Classics
$99.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Books are friends you can always count on. Find new friendships in literature with this exclusively selected boxed set Four special-edition Word Cloud Classics are included: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, and The Secret Garden. Rea ...Show more
Discovery Word Cloud Boxed Set (The Wizard of Oz, The Wind in the Willows, Hans Christian Anderson Tales, Aesop's Fables) by Editors of Canterbury Classics
$99.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Discover the world of classic literature Discover new realms of thought and fantasy in this exclusively selected boxed set Four special-edition Word Cloud Classics are included: The Wizard of Oz, The Wind in the Willows and Other Stories, Hans Christian Andersen Tales, and Aesop's Fables. Readers w ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?' Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of his new landlord, Heathcliff. The intense and ...Show more