Agnes Grey by ANNE BRONTE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poign ...Show more
The Castle Of Otranto by Horace Walpole
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Category: Classics
With this title, Walpole established the Gothic as a literary form in England. It was first published as a scholarly translation from an ancient Italian text, a supernatural tale of a fatal prophecy set in the time of the crusades and one which inspired terror in its early readers.
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics
This title features an introduction by Blake Motrrision. Clifford Chatterley returns from the First World War as an invalid. Constance nurses him and tries to be the dutiful wife. However, childless and listless she feels oppressed by their marriage and their isolated life. Partly encouraged by Clifford ...Show more
The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Macmillan Classics) by Ian Fleming
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Category: Classics
With the proceeds from his latest invention, Crackpot Whistling Sweets, Commander Caractacus Pott buys his family their first car. It looks like a wreck, but once restored it turns out to be no ordinary vehicle: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a magical car which can fly, swim and even think. Chitty and the ...Show more
For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
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Category: Classics
First published in 1874, this is a powerful tale of an Australian penal settlement, which originally appeared in serial form in a Melbourne paper. It follows the story of Rufus Dawes, a young man transported for a murder which he did not commit. Australian author and content.
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
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Category: Classics
"The Red Badge of Courage", written in 1895 by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest of all American novels. This is a book about the Civil War, and one Union soldier's struggle with his inner demons as he prepares for, and fights his first battle. ...Show more
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics
Few novels ever swept across the world with such overpowering impact as Les Mis rables. Within 24 hours, the first Paris edition was sold out. In other great cities of the world it was devoured with equal relish. Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violen ...Show more
The Secret of Hanging Rock (Picnic plus final Chapter) by Joan Lindsay; John Taylor (Editor); Yvonne Rousseau (Commentaries by); Mudrooroo Nyoongah (Commentaries by)
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The final chapter in the original manuscript of Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, augmented by commentaries and photographs.
Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins; John Gilbert (Illustrator); Norman Donaldson (Introduction by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
At the center of Hide and Seek (1854) a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful girl known only as Madonna? It is not until his young friend Zack Thorpe--rebelling against his repressi ...Show more
Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #3 by Anon Anon Anon
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Category: Classics
'In two I'll slice the hair-seat / of Helga's kiss-gulper.' In this epic tale from the Viking Age that ranges across Scandinavia and Viking Britain, two poets compete for the love of Helga the Fair - with fatal consequences. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little ...Show more
Emma [Macmillan Collectors Library PB] by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics
A special edition from Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning classics that make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Featuring beautiful heritage wallpaper patterns from Jane Austen’s own home in Hampshire, these collectable paperback editions are a must for all Jane Austen fans. O ...Show more