What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Condition: **NEW**'I'd like to have a large house and a splendiferous garden...I mean to do something grand. I don't know what, yet; but when I'm grown up I shall find out.' Katy Carr is mischievous, untidy and unruly. Free to run wild around the countryside in which she has grown up, life for Katy is g ...Show more
Femme Fatale: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #15 by Guy De Maupassant
$1.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
It is a selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the w ...Show more
Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics
'But what added most to the grotesque expression of his face, was a ghastly smile, which, appearing to be the mere result of habit and to have no connexion with any mirthful or complacent feeling, constantly revealed the few discoloured fangs that were yet scattered in his mouth, and gave him the aspect ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Book Club Edition Ser.
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' Drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm has neglected his livestock for too long. In a burst of insurgent fervour they rise up and he is deposed, with the pigs taking charge of the newly named Animal Farm. Everything runs smoothly, productivi ...Show more
The Sound of One Hand Clapping: Vintage Classic by Richard Flanagan
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
NOW AVAILABLE AS A VINTAGE CLASSIC EDITION Since its first publication in 1997, Richard Flanagan's classic story of migration and love has become one of the most-loved and biggest-selling literary novels in Australian history. In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlan ...Show more
Is There No Place: Penguin Special by Kate Richards
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials
Kate Richards experienced episodes of depression and psychosis well into her adult life. As a trained doctor working in medical research, she is well positioned to ask the hard questions about how we care for our people with mental illness. Using case studies and her own observations, Kate challenges th ...Show more
Playing Beatie Bow: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The game is called Beatie Bow, and the kids play it for the thrill of giving themselves a scare. It's Beatie Bow, risen from the dead When Abigail is drawn in, the game quickly changes from a harmless little scare to an extraordinary adventure, as she is transported to a place that is strangely familiar ...Show more
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Shadow of the Sunencompasses forty years of incisive and moving reportage about Africa by one of the world's greatest journalists. From newly independent Ghana to war-torn Rwanda, Kapuscinski captures the sights, sounds, smells and, above all, the real lives of this vast contin ...Show more
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1960, the author set out to rediscover his native land. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of its people. Accompanied only by his dog, Charley, he travelled all across the United States in a pick-up truck. His journey took him through almost forty states. Th ...Show more
Treasure Island (Alma Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics
One of the best-loved adventure stories ever written, Treasure Island's timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps, mutiny and derring-do has appealed to generations of readers ever since Robert Louis Stevenson penned it in 1881 with the claim: "If this don't fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau (pocket Penguin) by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'The eyes that glanced at me shone with a pale-green light' A crazed vivisectionist engineers a new super-breed of monstrous 'Beast Men' on a remote Pacific island, in H. G. Wells's Victorian scientific nightmare of man playing god. Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Peng ...Show more
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
A storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family is wrecked. Miraculously, all on board survive. Plotting, mistaken identities, bewitching love and drunkenness follow as the travellers explore the strange place of spirits and monsters on which t ...Show more