The Dunwich Horror: and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Deadly forces are about to be awakened ...In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy's arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old Ones, that fo ...Show more
The Iron Heel by London Jack
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, Jack London's The Iron Heel offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe. Originally published nearly a hundred years ago, it anticipated many features of the past century, including the ...Show more
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
"The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories" collects some of Jack London's most profound and moving allegorical tales. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited by Andrew Sinclair with an introduction by James Dickey. "The Call of the Wild", London's masterpiece about a dog learning to survive ...Show more
The War with Hannibal (The History of Rome from its Foundation Books 21-30) by Titus Livy; Aubrey de Selincourt (translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: GOOD-VERY GOOD
In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC AD 17) chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. He vividly recreates the immense armies of Hannibal, complete with elephants, crossing the Alps; the panic as they approached the gates of Rome; and t ...Show more
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
The Monk by Matthew Lewis The Monk is remembered for being one of the more lurid and "transgressive" of Gothic novels. It is also the first book to feature a priest as the villain. The story concerns Ambrosio - a pious, well-respected monk in Spain - and his violent downfall. We are delighted to publish ...Show more
The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Frank Bergon (ed.)
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank—not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and that a national "Voyage of Discove ...Show more
Hero Of Our Time A by M.IU Lermontov
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Category: Classics
Pechorin is certainly a dangerous man - Byronic in his wasted gifts, his cynicism, his predatory and flamboyant energy for any kind of action that will stave off boredom. In five linked episodes, Mikhail Lermontov builds up the portrait of a man caught in and expressing the sickness of his times.