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Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally prot g ...Show more
Black Beauty (Puffin Clothbound Classics) by Anna Sewell; Meg Rosoff (Introduction by)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Black Beauty spends his youth in a loving home, surrounded by friends and cared for by his owners. But when circumstances change, he learns that not all humans are so kind. Passed from hand to hand, Black Beauty witnesses love and cruelty, wealth and poverty, friendship and hardship . . . Will the hands ...Show more
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England (Time), Evelyn Waugh's third novel helped to establish his reputation as a mater satirist. We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way. When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African sta ...Show more
Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton
$15.00 AUD
$17.95 (16% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Australian Classics Ser.
Bush Studies, written during the 1890s, was first published to considerable critical acclaim. These powerful and haunting stories of pioneering Australia give voice to the forgotten women of those times. the harsh lives of pioneer women in the Australian bush are difficult to imagine today. Barbara Bayn ...Show more
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945 this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.
Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers by Joseph Heller
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Chess: A Novel by Stefan Zweig
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At f ...Show more
Children Are Civilians Too by Heinrich Böll
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett; Andrew Lincoln (Contribution by)
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
The first novel of a family saga, Clayhanger (1910) is a coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England. It follows Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves school, takes over the family business and falls in love. The triumph of the book is the minute detailing of the effect of bourgeois respectabi ...Show more
Colditz : The Full Story by P.R. Reid
$10.00 AUD
$29.99 (66% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Pan Military Classics Series
In "Colditz: The Full Story", Major Pat Reid brings together the many dramatic discoveries resulting from research that has covered the five continents. From all walks of life, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French, German and Polish prisoners - as well as those from the British Commonwealth and USA - were inca ...Show more
Collages by Anais Nin
$10.00 AUD
$21.00 (52% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
"Collages began with an image which had haunted me. A friend, Renate, had told me about her trip to Vienna where she was born, and of her childhood relationships to statues. She told me stories of her childhood, her relationship to her father, her first love. I begin the novel with: Vienna was the city ...Show more