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The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1940, the author sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. This book offers a log of the expedition, combining combines science, philosophy and adventure.
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit communit ...Show more
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
$14.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Noble Prize for Literature. Here, is a perfectly crafted story is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty ...Show more
The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must acco ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Utterly unique and beloved around the world, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic essays by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. Telling the story of the prophet Al-Mustafa and his conversations with various acquaintances as he returns home after a long absence, the boo ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
Nobody loves Mary - the heroine of the famous story of Francis Burnett "The Secret Garden". However, she does not burn with love for others, and moreover - she can not stand the whole world. And then her parents are passing away prematurely. There is an impression that nothing good can happen to her in ...Show more
The Warren Buffett Way by Robert G. Hagstrom
$49.95 AUD
Category: Business & Finance | Series: Wiley Investment Classics Ser.
Warren Buffett remains one of the most sought-after and watched figures in business today. He has become a billionaire and investment sage by buying chunks of companies and holding onto them, managing them as businesses, and eventually reaping huge profits for himself and investors in Berkshire Hathaway ...Show more
The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Ser.
The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Regarded by many as her greatest work, The Waves is also s ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
$35.00 AUD
Category: Older Readers 8-10 Yrs | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
When the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and heads up into the open air, he embarks on a series of exhilarating adventures with his new friends: the laid-back Ratty, the gruff yet kindly Badger and the self-satisfied, irrepressible Mr. Toad. With 70 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. 'Believe me, ...Show more
The Window Seat: First Nations Classics by Archie Weller, Ernie Dingo
$19.99 AUD
Category: First Nations | Series: First Nations Classics Ser.
Runner-up for the inaugural Vogel Award in 1980, Archie Weller is a master storyteller. In these short stories, take a seat and rethink what it means to be Australian.Since Archie Weller was runner-up for the first Vogel Award in 1980 for his novel The Day of the Dog, he has become an important voice in ...Show more
The Woman Destroyed by Simone De Beauvoir
$24.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability - in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one. THE WOMAN DESTROYED is a collection of three stories, each an e ...Show more