The Open Door by Margaret Oliphant
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From world-renowned and critically-acclaimed cartoonist Seth, comes this legendary ghost story - complete with brand-new spooky illustrations, this short story is the perfect seasonal gift! A classic ghost story illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist, Seth. Retired officer Colonel Mortimer takes a lease on ...Show more
Mr Jones by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics
One of the titles in an exciting series of beloved, charming and spooky ghost stories, brought to life by legendary illustrator Seth. When Lady Jane Lynke unexpectedly inherits Bells, a beautiful country estate, she declares she'll never leave the peaceful grounds and sets about making the house her hom ...Show more
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman; Robert Chandler (Translator); Elizabeth Chandler (Translator); Yury Bit-Yunan (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'One of the great novels of the 20th century' ObserverIn April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history.Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers and spends a final night with his wife and ...Show more
The Captain of the Pole-Star by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics
From world-renowned and critically-acclaimed cartoonist Seth, comes this legendary ghost story - complete with brand-new spooky illustrations, this short story is the perfect seasonal gift! A classic ghost story illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist, Seth. The Pole-Star's voyage comes to a halt after beco ...Show more
Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio - Essays on China and the World by Peter Zarrow (Editor); Liang Qichao
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Category: Classics
'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers' Pankaj Mishra'A country does not become corrupt and weak overnight. Rather, we are now reaping the evi ...Show more
Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn
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Category: Classics
New in Penguin Japanese Classics- ghost stories from a master recounter of the macabre Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched affair in ...Show more
An Eddy on the Floor by Bernard Capes
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Category: Classics
From world-renowned and critically-acclaimed cartoonist Seth, comes this legendary ghost story - complete with brand-new spooky illustrations, this short story is the perfect seasonal gift! A classic ghost story illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist, Seth. After attending a seance at an acquaintance's hom ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYHigh on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. ...Show more
The Secret History of the Mongols by Atwood Christopher P.
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Category: Classics
'By the Power of Eternal Heaven; By the Protection of the Majestic Imperial Fortune.'Born a poor nomad in an unforgiving world, Chinggis (or Genghis) Khan transformed the thirteenth century, ultimately ruling an empire that would stretch from Korea to Crimea and Syria to Siberia. Much of what we know ab ...Show more
Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton; Angus Gowland (Editor)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A new Penguin Classics edition of Burton's masterpiece - ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, in reality an all-encompassing examination of the human condition. The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the 17th-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens an ...Show more
Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm; Jack Zipes; Andrea Dezsö
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majo ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman ...Show more