Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Bookmark (Embellished Manuscripts Collection) by Paperblanks
$5.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Embellished Manuscripts Collection
English writer Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley s Gothic horror novel, Frankenstein, considered to be one of the first works of science fiction, tells of a scientist who creates a sentient being in a morality-pushing experiment. Today, her handwritten draft is held at Bodleian Libraries at the University of ...Show more
A Christmas Carol: Popular Penguins by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The classic holiday tale is presented with two other Dickens Christmas stories, "The Chimes" and "The Haunted Man"Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed b ...Show more
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Read this fantastic, atmospheric Australian thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a group of young girls. It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of thr ...Show more
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name. Set in the deep American South between the wars, The Color Purple is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children ta ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those i ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility (Collector's Edition) by Jane Austen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival. ...Show more
The Haunting of Hill House (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begi ...Show more
She is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann
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Category: Classics
She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We follow Eckermann’s soft footfalls in the open (but far from empty) spaces between earth and sky; from sandstone to wetlands, from p ...Show more
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson's scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story "The Lottery" in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickl ...Show more
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time st ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales (Timeless Classics) by Lewis Carroll
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Timeless Classics Ser.
This lovingly crafted edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales is the perfect gift for any child or classic story lover. Delve into this stunning gift edition boasting the complete collection of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales and original, iconic illustrations by Joh ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz- dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. Travelling upriver to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, w ...Show more