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Jules Verne's Mikhail Strogoff by Jules Verne, Stephanie Smee (translator)
$55.00 AUD
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
Recovery: Vintage Minis by Helen Macdonald
$7.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
The hawk was everything I wanted to be- solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life How do we carry on when someone close to us dies? Is it simply a case of putting one foot in front of the other in a bleak new world or do we need something more? Reeling with grief aft ...Show more
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
$19.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his 'Poop-poop-poop' road-hogging new motor-car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland by L. CARROLL
$22.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and id ...Show more
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
$22.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust" When Peter Pan loses his shadow in the Darling children's nursery, things will never be the same again... ----- Over the rooftops of London, Peter Pan and the fairy Tinkerbell lead Wendy, Michael and John Darling to Neverland to start a new lif ...Show more
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
$22.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exup ry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world ...Show more
Black Beauty by A. SEWELL
$22.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, ...Show more
Of Mice and Men (Popular Penguin) by John Steinbeck
$12.99 AUD
Category: classics
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
$6.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the mater ...Show more
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle; Judith John (Contribution by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,Sherlock Holmes #5.Arthur Conan Doyle.The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Marriage: Vintage Minis by Jane Austen
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Category: classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Why do we set so much store by marriage? These excerpts from her novels show that Jane Austen was fascinated by this question, subjecting it to her forensic eye and wonderfully ironic wit again and again.
Independence: Vintage Minis by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.' We collect some of the most heartening statements of independence from Bronte's heroines Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe as in the face of temptation, hardship and heartache they cling determ ...Show more