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Commonplace by Christina Rossetti
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
The only edition in print of a delightful novella of love, matrimony and sisterhood, firmly in the tradition of Jane Austen, 'Commonplace' displays the imaginative flair and linguistic prowess that mark Rossetti's best-loved verse
Fugitive Poems by John Keats
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Hesperus Classics - Poetry
Fugitive Poems is a new volume of previously uncollected poems selected by Poet Laureate Andrew Motion. Gleaned from the riches of Keats's letters to his friends and relatives, these poems reveal a lesser-known aspect of the poet's sensibility, showing him as a witty, humorous and, at times, irreverent ...Show more
Hadji Murat by Tolstoy Leo
$21.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Hesperus Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tolstoy's final work-a gripping novella about the struggle between the Muslim Chechens and their inept occupiers-is a powerful moral fable for our time. Inspired by a historical figure Tolstoy heard about while serving in the Caucasus, this story brings to life the famed warrior Hadji Murat, a Chechen r ...Show more
Hyde Park Gate News by Virginia Woolf
$44.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Hesperus Classics
As children, Virginia Woolf, elder sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby, collaborated on their very own newspaper, recording the day-to-day events of the family home, 22 Hyde Park Gate. They called the paper 'Hyde Park Gate News', and the original manuscripts are published here for the first time. Ing ...Show more
Lesley Castle by Jane Austen
$21.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Hesperus Classics
This is a unique edition of Jane Austen's early burlesques; Lesley Castle, an inspired novella in letters, and is presented here alongside A History of England, and Catharine.
No Man's Land by Graham Greene
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
No Man's Land is a profoundly chilling tale of espionage, superstition, and betrayal, and bears all the hallmarks of Greene's most famous works. Arriving in the Harz Mountains, within striking distance of the Iron Curtain, 'civilian' Brown appears to be enjoying a small vacation. Yet one night he crosse ...Show more
Poems of Solitude by Emily Bronte
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Hesperus Classics - Poetry
This unique collection of Emily Bronte's most beautiful poems is a fantastic introduction to one of the greatest authors of English literature. The cheerful comforts of home, and the joys of memory and hope, form the background for an expression of inner fortitude in this moving book of solitude and sor ...Show more
The Exclamation Mark by Anton Chekhov
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
A civil servant stands accused of not understanding the rules of punctuation. He begins to go through the correct use of commas and semicolons before arriving at the exclamation mark, which, he realises, in forty years of writing, he has never used. From here he develops a bizarre and paranoid fantasy i ...Show more
The Pilgrims by Mary Shelley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Hesperus Classics
A knight living alone in his isolated mountain fortress shows hospitality to two pilgrims who one day appear from the mountains, seeking shelter. Entreating him to tell them of his sorrow, the knight unburdens himself and tells a tragic tale of love and loss. Resigned to the bitter fate that life has de ...Show more
The Secret Life of Nuns by Pietro Aretino
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
This first unabridged English translation of an Italian masterpiece by the originator of European pornographic writing is the first in a series of 'The Secret Life of...' books by Aretino offering a delightfully shocking peek at what goes on behind closed doors. A prequel to The School of Whoredom (also ...Show more
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