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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty anaolgy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her p ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Thomas Hardy's final novel: A passionate and tragic story of the follies of Victorian England's most rigid institutions: class, marriage, and higher education Growing up in southern England, Jude Fawley dreams of one day transcending his country life and becoming a scholar at Christminster's most pre ...Show more
Koran (Everyman's Library H/B) by ED M PICKTHALL
$46.99 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
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Letters by Mary Wortley Montagu
$36.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Letters by the 18th century blue-stocking grande dame, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She was a duke's daughter, who married the English ambassador in Constantinople, and the friend of Swift and Pope, whom she numbered among her correspondents.
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman; Polly Jones (Introduction by); Robert Chandler (Translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an immense ...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
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
This is a journey through madness and death resulting in stylized violence, narrated with irony and lyricism by Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acerbic and visionary portrait of the United States, its suburban horrors, and of motel and plastic culture.
London Stories by Jerry White
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, Defoe and Dickens. But there has also been an innumerable host of writers who have sought to capture the ess ...Show more
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they ...Show more
Love Stories by Diana Secker (EDT) Tesdell
$24.95 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
Love Stories brings together a captivating assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms- first love, infatuation, obsession, unrequited love, marriage, adultery, jealousy, and the complicated bonds of those who have spent their lives together.An array of writers evoke ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; Laura Thompson (Introduction by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew t ...Show more
Mansfield Park (Everyman's Library) by Jane Austen
$46.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Jane Austen turns her unerring eye on the concerns of English society at a time of great upheaval in this historical romance classic. Mansfield Park is named for the magnificent, idyllic estate that is home to the wealthy Bertram family and that serves as a powerful symbol of English tradition and stab ...Show more