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The Theft of History (PB) by Jack Goody
45.00 AUD
Category: History & Humanities | Series: Canto Classics Ser.
Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing. Goody also examines the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures ...Show more
The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This title is presented with an introduction by Stella Rimington. It's May, 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure - a desperate hunt across the co ...Show more
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
11.95 AUD
Category: 8-12+ Years | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When young D'Artagnan comes to Paris to seek his fortune, he is challenged to a duel with not one, but three of the king's Musketeers. But Athos, Porthos and Aramis become his trusted friends as he tries to prove himself worthy of becoming a fourth Musketeer.
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
9.95 AUD
Category: History & Humanities | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Based on eyewitness accounts and his own unlimited access to the Emperor Hadrian's Imperial archives, the scholar Suetonius wrote a sweeping account of the lives of twelve of Rome's most powerful emperors. From the empire's most shining examples of ruling competency, such as Julius Caesar and Augustus, ...Show more
The Watch Tower: Text Classics by Elizabeth Harrower
12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power. Following their father's death, Laura and Clare are withdrawn from their elite private boarding school by their mother. As their mother slowly withdraws from them, the tw ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
27.99 AUD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: 8-12+ Years | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame is an English classic loved by adults and children alike. The much-loved classic tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with Ratty instead of doing his spring-cleaning, he discovers a whole new world. As well as adventures on the river an ...Show more
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American moralityatwo classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts IN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with "The Winter of Our Discontent," he had aresumed his position as an indep ...Show more
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
14.99 AUD
Category: 8-12+ Years | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'I did not believe in ghosts?Few attend Mrs Alice Drablow?s funeral, and not one blood relative amongst them. There are undertakers with shovels, of course, a local official who would rather be anywhere else, and one Mr Arthur Kipps, solicitor from London. He is to spend the night in Eel Marsh House, th ...Show more
The Women in Black: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A classic novel by a superb observer of contemporary manners, The Women in Black illuminates on every page the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. It's Sydney in the late 1950s, and the Ladies' Cocktail Frocks department of the famous F.G. Goode department store is bracing itself for the Christmas rus ...Show more
They're a Weird Mob: Text Classics by Nino Culotta
12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Just off the boat from Italy, Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he's never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking. They're a Weird Mobis an hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience in Menzies-era Australia, by a writer with a brilliant ear fo ...Show more
Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic by Napoleon Hill
19.95 AUD
Category: Business | Series: Capstone Classics Ser.
The greatest motivational book of all time Napoleon Hill's thirteen step programme will set you on the pathto wealth and success. Think and Grow Rich reveals themoney-making secrets of hundreds of America's most affluent people.By thinking like them, you can become like them. Thispowerful 1937 classic, ...Show more
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many langua ...Show more