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Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
$38.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick Illustrations by Rockwell Kent Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captai ...Show more
Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Ch'eng-en
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, Monkey King was written anonymously during the Ming dynasty and is most commonly attributed to Wu Cheng'en, the son of a silk-shop clerk from east China. It recounts a Tang-dynasty monk's quest for Buddhist scriptures, accompanied by an omni-talented kung-fu M ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
"Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. ... It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." (Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.) "Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dal ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four Clothbound Classic by George Orwell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
'Who controls the past controls the future- who controls the present controls the past.'Hidden away in the Records Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, w ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Catherine Morland should know better. She's the very ideal of a nice, normal girl. But Catherine is cursed with an overactive imagination. She is also obsessed with lurid Gothic novels, where terrible things happen to the heroine. Which gets her into all sorts of trouble... When Catherine visits Bath a ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$39.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stew ...Show more
Paradise Lost by John Milton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Clothbound Classics
Milton's celebrated epic poem, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In Paradise LostMilton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuri ...Show more
Passing (Little Clothbound Classics) by Nella Larsen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Little Clothbound 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-SmithClare Kendry, elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-Amer ...Show more
Persuasion (Clothbound Classic) by Jane Austen; Gillian Beer (Introduction by, Editor, Notes by); Coralie Bickford-smith (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Sir Walter Elliot, de Kellynch-Hall, dans le comté de Somerset, n'avait jamais touché un livre pour son propre amusement, si ce n'est le livre héraldique. Là il trouvait de l'occupation dans les heures de désoeuvre- ment, et de la consolation dans les heures de chagrin. Devant ces vieux parchemins, il é ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor F ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 2 by Marcel Proust / Moncrieff
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott M ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility (Clothbound Classic) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
" As nearly flawless as any fiction could be."-- Eudora Welty"As nearly flawless as any fiction could be."--Eudora Welty"As nearly flawless as any fiction could be." --Eudora WeltyFamously characterized as the story of two Dashwood sisters who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of "civili ...Show more