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Dog Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling's heroically faithful 'Garm', Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a 'yaller dog' and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull who lives in a block of flats for dogs in Jonathan Lethem's 'Ava's Apartment'. Here are stories which touch ...Show more
First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev; Isaiah Berlin (Translator); Leonard Schapiro (Translator)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
"This volume contains two of the world's great love stories - FIRST LOVE, and SPRING TORRENTS, which show Turgenev at his very best. Simple, direct and tender, they record the pains and glories of youthful infatuation in a style which evokes exactly and in detail what it is like to be young and in love. ...Show more
Golf Stories by McGrath Charles
$30.00 AUD
Category: Sport | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
"Golf Stories "is a wonderful gathering of short fiction about the famously addictive pastime. Here are literary classics by such golf-loving writers as P. G. Wodehouse, Ring Lardner, and John Updike, mixed with surprises like an appearance by Ian Fleming's James Bond and a little crime on the links fro ...Show more
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
$34.95 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Just how did all the animals come to have each of their special characteristics? How was the alphabet created?Have you ever wondered how the Leopard got his spots, how the Rhinosaurus got his skin, or how the Alphabet was made? This witty and wonderful collection embarks upon a fanciful voyage to uneart ...Show more
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson; Rowland Hilder (Illustrator)
$37.95 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: Everyman's Library CHILDREN's CLASSICS Ser.
'As a writer of the English language there has been no one to touch Stevenson in a hundred years...as a story-teller he is unsurpassed' George MacDonald Fraser When young David Balfour is orphaned he discovers some surprising truths about his family. His meeting with his uncle Ebenezer turns out to hav ...Show more
Michel De Montaigne: The Complete Works - Essays, Travel Journal, Letters by Michel De Montaigne
$49.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Humanist, skeptic, acute observer of himself and others, Michel de Montaigne (1533--92) was the first to use the term "essay" to refer to the form he pioneered, and he has remained one of its most famous practitioners. He reflected on the great themes of existence in his wise and engaging writings, his ...Show more
Poems and Prophecies by William Blake
$29.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
This is a selection of the poet's work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her introduction the poet and critic expounds Blake's esoteric theory and shows how it helped to create a poetry which is unlike any other. The tigers that crouched in Blake's baleful sp ...Show more
The Collected Stories (Everyman's Library HB) by Ernest Hemingway
$44.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Including all of Hemingway's shorter fiction, this collection is introduced by the poet James Fenton. The stories touch on the same themes as his novels: war, love, the nature of heroism, renunciation and the writer's life. They are arranged chronologically.
The Iliad (Everyman's Library) by Homer (Translated by Robert Fitzgerald)
$37.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the cornerstone of Western culture. The story centres on ...Show more
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
A bitter-sweet tale of quiet lives in the small and apparently timeless world of mid-19th century Sicilian nobility. Through the eyes of his princely protagonist, the author chronicles the details of an aristocratic, pastoral society, torn apart by revolution, death and decay.
The Raj Quartet: The jewel in the crown by Paul Scott
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Secon ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
$41.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The classic novel of 'villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing', soon to be a major new ITV series from the producers of Poldark, Victoria and And Then There Were None. William Makepeace Thackeray's witty literary classic Vanity Fair is set against the ba ...Show more