Shakespeare for Every Night of the Year by Colin Salter (Editor)
47.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Batsford Poetry Anthologies Ser.
Immerse yourself in the sublime words of the Bard with this sumptuous anthology of Shakespearean snippets, with one extract for every night of the year. Chosen especially by a Shakespeare fanatic to reflect the changing seasons and yearly events, the entries in this glorious book include Romeo and Ju ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities: Artisan Edition by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Harper Muse: Artisan Edition Ser.
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel written by Charles Dickens. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the novel tells the story of two men, Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, who look alike but are very different in character. Darnay, a French aristocrat, renounces his t ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass is a cherished collection of stories featuring the titular character, Alice, and her misadventures through the curious and fantastical lands of Wonderland. As little Alice goes deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole, she meets an assortmen ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
65.95 AUD
Category: Classics
After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches in medias res towards the end of the Trojan War between the Trojans and the besieging Greeks. Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, offers the Greeks wealth for the return of his daughter Chryseis, held captive by Agamemnon, the Greek leader. Although m ...Show more
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (PB) by T. S. Eliot
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
A stunning new edition of T. S. Eliot's beloved cat poems Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, containing enchanting new colour illustrations by Julia Sarda.The naming of Cats is a difficult matter,It isn't just one of your holiday games;You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatterWhen I tell you, a ca ...Show more
The Beauties - Essential Stories by Anton Chekov; Nicolas Slater Pasternak (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
The essential edition of the greatest stories by the Russian master of the form Chekhov was without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its untidy complexity. His short stories, written throughout his life and newly translated for this essential collection, are exquisite masterpie ...Show more
Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems by Brian Bilston
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Category: Poetry and Drama
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
The Book of Tree Poems by Ana Sampson
35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Could there be a more pleasant way to spend a warm afternoon than lazing under a tree reading poetry inspired by these shade-giving wonders of the world? Trees have sparked some of the biggest literary imaginations over the ages and - as the climate emergency escalates - it has never been more important ...Show more
Metamorphoses: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Ovid
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years,Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. A Penguin Classic Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns ...Show more
Gawimarra Gathering by Jeanine Leane
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Category: Poetry and Drama
A stunning work of poetry from an award-winning First Nations writer, seamlessly weaving the personal and the political. This superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship, to experimental archival poems dissecting the violence and destruction of the settler-colo ...Show more
Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury by Robert Adamson
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Category: Poetry and Drama
The final collection from the award-winning 'poet of the Hawkesbury River' In the old days I used to think art That was purely imagined could fly higher Than anything real. Now I feel a small fluttering Bird in my own pulse, a connection to the sky. -from 'The Kingfisher's Soul' In the last year of his ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Word Cloud Classics) by Emily Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics
Emily Bront 's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events ...Show more