Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Oliver Ready (Translator)
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Category: Classics
Will I really - I mean, really - actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces?...Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in blood ...axe in hand?...Lord, will I really? This new translation of Dostoevsky's 'psychologica ...Show more
The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
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Category: Classics
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his plane vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. Nearly eighty years l ...Show more
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
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Category: Classics
"From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak s Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original. anned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during ...Show more
The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics
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Vita Sackville-West: A Note of Explanation by Vita Sackville-West; Kate Baylay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A Note of Explanation is a previously unknown work by iconic writer Vita Sackville-West. Written in 1922, it was recently rediscovered as a miniature book in Queen Mary's dollhouse in Windsor Castle. Witty and stylish, the story recounts the antics of a time-traveling sprite who inhabits the dollhouse. ...Show more
On Our Selection by Steele Rudd
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Category: Classics
"It is a volume whose recommendation rests solely on its own excellence, and that excellence is more than sufficiently great to guarantee a hearty welcome and a keen appreciation of "Steele Rudd's" talent...No review of the book would be complete without a reference to the excellent illustrations which ...Show more
Electra and other Plays by Sophocles
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Category: Classics
Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collects four of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief of a young woman for her fath ...Show more
The Memorial Feast for Kokotoy Khan - A Kirghiz Epic Poem in the Manas Tradition by Saghïmbay Orozbaq uulu; Daniel Prior (Translator)
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Category: Classics
An ancient Central Asian epic, passed down through generations, carries the reader into a world of nomads, warriors and horselords A Penguin Classic This tale from the Manas epic gives the reader startling, brilliantly colored access to the world of the horse-based nomad cultures of Central Asia ...Show more
Reckoning: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #48 by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics
'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.' This title features two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life. Introducing Little Black Clas ...Show more
Murphy by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Classics
Edited by J. C. C. Mays Murphy, Samuel Beckett's first novel, was published in 1938. Its work-shy eponymous hero, adrift in London, realises that desire can never be satisfied and withdraws from life, in search of stupor. Murphy's lovestruck fiancee Celia tries with tragic pathos to draw him back, but h ...Show more