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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All by Friedrich Nietzsche
$14.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This revelatory new translation by strips Thus Spoke Zarathustra down to its foundations in Gothic horror, and discovers a much darker book than previously understood. Not content to focus erringly on God is dead, this new translation sings a dithyramb to the earth at the same time as it mercilessly hun ...Show more
To The Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel's opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever. But time passes, bri ...Show more
Tobruk 1941: Text Classics by Chester Wilmot
$12.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Text Classics Ser.
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Treasure Island (Puffin Clothbound Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
$27.99 AUD
Category: CH Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
A stunningly beautiful clothbound hardback edition of one of the most famous adventure stories in the world. Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captain Flint, young Jim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he has discovered a map that will lead him to the fabled Treasure Isl ...Show more
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankn ...Show more
Under The Net: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch; Kiernan Ryan (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. 'This is real life, Jake,' she said. 'You'd ...Show more
Vanity Fair (Clothbound Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
$37.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 'I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year, 'observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thack ...Show more
Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
'Is life worth living? Yes, a thousand times yes when the world still holds such spirits as Professor James.'- Gertrude Stein A classic of American thought, William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experienceis an extraordinary study of human spirituality in all its forms and one of the most prof ...Show more
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and "vile bodies" in every kind of capricious escapade in this story. The characters are an assortment of those inhabiting the social domain that lies between Park Lane and Bond Street.
Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Unique among Jack Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerardfocuses on the scenes and sensations of childhood - -the wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, evil, insight, suffering, delight, and shock -- as they were revealed in the short tragic-happy life of his saintly brother, Gerard. Set in Kerouac's home ...Show more
Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
Walden Two by B. F. Skinner
$19.95 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition.This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.