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1984 by George Orwell
$39.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has ...Show more
A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND OTHER CHRISTMAS BO by DICKENS CHARLES
$34.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
The final volume in the Everyman's Library Charles Dickens collection: the timeless story of everyone's favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens's Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham's classic illustrations. No holiday season is complete without the story of tightfi ...Show more
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque; Norman Stone (Introduction by); Brian Murdoch (Translator)
$36.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of the classic tale of a young German soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches, widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time. When twenty-year-old Paul Bäumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during ...Show more
Carried Away: A Selection of Stories by Alice Munro
$37.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Carried Away" is a dazzling selection of stories-seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought ...Show more
Raymond Chandler's Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Secondhand. The only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that have been unavailable for decades. When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing sto ...Show more
Complete Shorter Fiction by Herman Melville; John Updike (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than the massive, tectonic pa ...Show more
Dubliners by JOYCE JAMES
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Dubliners is a landmark in modern literature, and one of the twentieth century's finest collections of short stories. In its remarkable portrait of a city and its people, it dramatises ordinary life in the modern world. Together, the stories form one interwoven tapestry which provides a rich and subtle ...Show more
Giovanni's Room (U.S. HB) by James Baldwin
$34.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
GoodBye to All That by Robert Graves; Miranda Seymour (Introduction by)
$41.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of one of the best and most famous memoirs of the conflict. Good-bye to All That was published a decade after the end of the first World War, as the poet and novelist Robert Graves was preparing to leave England for good. Th ...Show more
His Dark Materials - The Golden Compass/ The Subtle Knife/ The Amber Spyglass by PULLMAN PHILIP
$45.00 AUD
$52.95 (15% off)
Category: Childrens | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
The only hardcover omnibus of the best-selling and award-winning fantasy trilogy, in a Contemporary Classics edition. Philip Pullman's trilogy is a masterpiece that transcends genre and appeals to readers of all ages. His heroine, Lyra, is an orphan living in a parallel universe in which science, theo ...Show more
Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Lolita" tells the story of aging Hubert Humbert who has an obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze. It is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. All in all, "Lolita" is filled with awe and exhilaration, along ...Show more
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie : Girls of Slender Means, Driver's Seat & the Only Problem by Muriel Spark
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
"A perfect book"--and basis for the Maggie Smith film--about a teacher who makes a lasting impression on her female students in the years before World War II (Chicago Tribune). "Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!" So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and somet ...Show more