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A Christmas Carol: A Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classic by Charles Dickens
$35.00 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
The classic seasonal tale of self-discovery, with 80 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. This classic seasonal tale of self-discovery has become one of Charles Dickens's most famous and best-loved works. On Christmas Eve, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by the ghost of his former business p ...Show more
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
$10.00 AUD
$14.99 (33% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writingscollects stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings. This Penguin Classics is edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Slater.Since it was first published in 1843 A Christmas Carol ...Show more
A Dictionary of British Folk Customs by Christina Hole
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Helicon Reference Classics Ser.
A nationwide listing of folk customs and practices, both past and present, in the British Isles. The book covers events around the country such as April Noddy Day, the Furry Dance and clipping the church, alongside more familiar commemorations such as Guy Fawkes, Ash Wednesday and hot cross buns.
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'In December 1937 I crossed the Pyrenees from France - two days on foot through the snow.' Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately ...Show more
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of wome ...Show more
A Room with a View: Penguin Classics by E M Forster
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentin ...Show more
A Rose for Winter: Travels in Andalusia by Laurie Lee
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashes slums, the cult of t ...Show more
A Short Book of Bad Judges by Graeme Williams
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Wildy Classics Ser.
As Graeme Williams states 'readers of John Milton and Beatrix Potter will know, reading about bad characters tends to be much more fun than reading about good ones. I confess to thinking that Paradise Lost and the Tales of Mr Tod, and of Two Bad Mice are all more entertaining to read than Paradise Regai ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays - Sweet Bird of Youth; The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
For use in schools and libraries only. Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spiri ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
$22.99 AUD
Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Before the concept of equality between the sexes was even conceived, Wollstonecraft wrote this book, a treatise of proto-feminism that was as powerful and original then as it is now. In it she argues with clarity and originality for the rational education of women and for an increased female contributio ...Show more
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
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$17.46 (42% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER * Family drama and the legacy of slavery haunt this epic tale of an enigmatic stranger in Jefferson, Mississippi--from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. "Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a ca ...Show more