The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
65.95 AUD
Category: Classics
After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches in medias res towards the end of the Trojan War between the Trojans and the besieging Greeks. Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, offers the Greeks wealth for the return of his daughter Chryseis, held captive by Agamemnon, the Greek leader. Although m ...Show more
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (PB) by T. S. Eliot
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
A stunning new edition of T. S. Eliot's beloved cat poems Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, containing enchanting new colour illustrations by Julia Sarda.The naming of Cats is a difficult matter,It isn't just one of your holiday games;You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatterWhen I tell you, a ca ...Show more
The Beauties - Essential Stories by Anton Chekov; Nicolas Slater Pasternak (Translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
The essential edition of the greatest stories by the Russian master of the form Chekhov was without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its untidy complexity. His short stories, written throughout his life and newly translated for this essential collection, are exquisite masterpie ...Show more
Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems by Brian Bilston
26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
The Book of Tree Poems by Ana Sampson
35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Could there be a more pleasant way to spend a warm afternoon than lazing under a tree reading poetry inspired by these shade-giving wonders of the world? Trees have sparked some of the biggest literary imaginations over the ages and - as the climate emergency escalates - it has never been more important ...Show more
Metamorphoses: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Ovid
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years,Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. A Penguin Classic Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns ...Show more
Gawimarra Gathering by Jeanine Leane
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
A stunning work of poetry from an award-winning First Nations writer, seamlessly weaving the personal and the political. This superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship, to experimental archival poems dissecting the violence and destruction of the settler-colo ...Show more
Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury by Robert Adamson
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
The final collection from the award-winning 'poet of the Hawkesbury River' In the old days I used to think art That was purely imagined could fly higher Than anything real. Now I feel a small fluttering Bird in my own pulse, a connection to the sky. -from 'The Kingfisher's Soul' In the last year of his ...Show more
William Shakespeare Comedies (Word Cloud Classics) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Bring on the merriment whenever you open this collection of Shakespeare's entertaining comedies. The comedies of William Shakespeare--including The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and As You Like It--have entertained readers and theatergoers for centuries. This elegant Word ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Word Cloud Classics) by Emily Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics
Emily Bront 's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events ...Show more
Emma (Word Cloud Classics) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Best-selling Victorian author Jane Austen has created many memorable female characters, with intriguing Emma Woodhouse being perhaps the most popular. Emma, a matchmaker at heart, is obsessed with love and romance--for others. As for her own love life, she wants nothing of it. She even feels repulsed by ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is ...Show more