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Walden and Civil Disobedience (Word Cloud Classics) by Henry David Thoreau
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
"If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."--Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience The oft-quoted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau is best known for two works: Walden and Civil Disobedience. Walden, first published in 1854, documents the time Thoreau spent livi ...Show more
Waltzing Matilda by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Desmond Digby (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
This ballad of the sheep-stealing swagman is known the world over. Here, with 'Banjo' Paterson's original lyrics and Freya Blackwood's stunning ochre-toned paintings, we are treated not just to the swagman's story, but to the story of the shearers' strikes of the time, of the squatter's family, and of t ...Show more
War and Peace : (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) by Leo Tolstoy
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classics Ser.
War looms in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and when Napoleon invades Russia in 1812 it forever changes those whose lives it engulfs. Although told on a panoramic scale Tolstoy's epic novel focuses the chaos of battle, the horror of death and bloodshed, and the expression of the noble virtues of love and ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix by Tasha Suri
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Remixed Classics Ser.
What Souls Are Made Of, British Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri’s masterful new take on Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, will leave readers breathless. Sometimes, lost things find their way home… Yorkshire, North of England, 1786. As the abandoned son of a lascar–a sailor from India–Heathcliff has ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. Two devastating Russian stories of solitude, unrequited love and depravity from beyond the grave. Film adaptations have been made by Italian ...Show more
William Blake Selected Poems - Crane Classics by William Blake
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Crown Classics Ser.
This selection of some of William Blake's best loved poems, including the words to the hymn Jerusalem, from his poem Milton, and his very familiar and popular poem The Tyger.
Wind in the Willows (Bath Treasury) by Kenneth Grahame
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Bath Classics Ser.
The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie ...Show more
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Since 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends--Piglet, Owl, Tigger, and the ever doleful Eeyore--have endured as the unforgettable creations of A.A. Milne, who wrote this book for his son, Christopher Robin, and Ernest H. Shepard, who lovingly gave Pooh and his companions shape. These characters and their ...Show more
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suf ...Show more
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Self Help | Series: Rider Classics Ser.
A beautiful collectable gift edition celebrating the 30 year anniversary of the ultimate cult feminist classic Within every woman, there lies a powerful force of energy, creativity and self-knowing: their wild woman. For centuries, she has been repressed by a male-orientated value system that trivialise ...Show more
Wonderful Adventures Of Mrs Seacole In Many Lands by SEACOLE MARY
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: Penguin 20th Century Classics Ser.
Famed for her work among the sick and wounded of the Crimean War, Mary Seacole possessed a unique perspective: that of a Victorian-era black woman at a battlefield's front line. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1805, she began her career as a healer by helping her mother nurse British officers at nearby mi ...Show more