The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage American Gothic Ser.
Nine spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics -- VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed an u ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
$65.95 AUD
Category: Classics
After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches in medias res towards the end of the Trojan War between the Trojans and the besieging Greeks. Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, offers the Greeks wealth for the return of his daughter Chryseis, held captive by Agamemnon, the Greek leader. Although m ...Show more
What Do I Know?: Essential Essays by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: Classics
A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition
Where All Good Flappers Go - Essential Stories of the Jazz Age by David M. Earle (Editor); F. Scott Fitzgerald (Contribution by); Zelda Fitzgerald (Contribution by); Anita Loos (Contribution by); Dorothy Parker (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
"I believe in the flapper as an artist in her particular field, the art of being - being young, being lovely." -- Zelda Fitzgerald A sparkling new collection of "flapper fiction" stories featuring the iconic women who defined the Jazz Age Edited and introduced by David M. Earle Vivacious, ch ...Show more
Every Day Is To-Day - Essential Writings by Gertrude Stein; Francesca Wade (Selected by, Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
A gorgeous new collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein's most enrapturing and essential short writings--a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful works Between the French-flapped covers of this elegant paperback collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, f ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin
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Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for fleeting rom ...Show more
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers; John Edgar Browning (Editor); Mike Jackson (Illustrator)
$37.50 AUD
Category: Classics
The King in Yellow: a play that brings madness to all who read it. Irresistible and insidious, it lures the reader with its innocence and dooms them with its corruption. In a series of interlinked stories, Robert W. Chambers's classic work of weird fiction shows the creeping spread of the play's macabre ...Show more
People from Bloomington by Budi Darma; Tiffany Tsao (Translator, Introduction by); Intan Paramaditha (Foreword by)
$31.00 AUD
Category: Classics
An eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia's most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan ParamadithaA Penguin ClassicIn these seven stories of The People ...Show more
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Gilman, is a highly celebrated and academic description of one of the most friendly doers on the planet. This work is considered an important morning task in feminist literature and one that explored questions about the beauty of the lady, both physical and mental. It ...Show more
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Having made his fortune in America, Eel is magnetically drawn back to the Piedmontese countryside where he grew up poor and illegitimate. Spending the summer wandering its valleys and vineyards with his childhood friend Nuto, Eel obsessively returns in memory to the farm where he worked as an adolescent ...Show more
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
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Category: Classics
'A tale of young love and disenchantment, of missed opportunities and passion's elusive, flickering flame' Financial Times 'The surprise bestseller ... read, loved and wept over by men and women of all ages' Guardian 'The magical novel about a Turkish man who falls in love with an artist in 1920s Berl ...Show more