Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: A "rich, Chekhovian novel" about family and forgiveness from the acclaimed author of Fire on the Mountain (The New Yorker). At the heart of this "wonderful" novel are the moving relationships between the estranged members of the Das family (The Washington Post Book ...Show more
The Sandman : Little Black Classic by E. T. A. Hoffmann
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
"Strange man, how can you have eyes for sale? Eyes? Eyes?" ' The disturbing tale of a young man's obsession with the Sandman, stealer of eyes, which has inspired writers from Sigmund Freud to Neil Gaiman. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever ...Show more
Washington Square (Popular Penguin) by Henry James
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. Torn between her desire to win her father's love and approval and her passion for the first man who has ...Show more
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics
According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in th ...Show more
The Withered Arm : Little Black Classic by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'She bared her poor curst arm'. A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Thomas Hardy's last novel, "Jude the Obscure" is a fearless exploration of the hypocrisy of Victorian society, edited with an introduction by Dennis Taylor in "Penguin Classics". Jude Fawley's hopes of an education at Christminster University are dashed when he is trapped into marrying the wild, earthy ...Show more
Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming
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Category: Classics | Series: James Bond 007
'You start to die the moment you are born' Live and Let Die, Ian Fleming's second 007 novel, takes Bond from Harlem to Jamaica in a frenzied hunt for the brilliant deadly gangster Mr Big and his macabre network of associates.
Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In each of three short stories--"Herodias," "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitator," and "A Simple Heart"--Gustave Flaubert studies the nature of humanity and spirituality with his characteristically sharp eye. A loyal servant dies alone, having served her masters all her life without complaining of ...Show more
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: VINTAGE CLASSIC
It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver's calculated perfection begins to crack. As dark truths emerg ...Show more
The Crocodile (Alma Quirky Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Quirky Classics
The civil servant Ivan Matveich and his wife Yelena Ivanovna are spectators of an exhibition - in a shopping arcade - of a crocodile owned by a German, when Ivan is suddenly swallowed alive by the animal. Unsuccessful in his attempts to be freed from his prison, due to the German's concern for his croco ...Show more
The Mysterious Correspondent - New Stories by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Newly discovered stories from one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen-the writer never spoke of them. Why did he choose not to publish them along with the others? One possible answer is that he was developing his themes ...Show more
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
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Category: Classics | Series: RC
"Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power'. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the title ...Show more