What Maisie Knew by Henry James
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The child of parents who divorce, remarry and then embark on adulterous affairs, Maisie Farange survives by her intelligence and spirit. For all its sombre theme of childhood innocence exposed to a corrupted adult world, this novel is one of James's comic masterpieces. The outrageous behaviour of the ch ...Show more
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie - solitary, observant and wise beyond her years - is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and ...Show more
What Makes Sammy Run by Schulberg Budd
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The classic book that shaped two generations view of the movie business and introduced the is the archetypal Hollywood player Sammy Glick. He s got a machete mouth and a genius for double-cross. As Budd Shulberg author of the screenplay On the Waterfront follows Sammy s relentless upward progress, he cr ...Show more
Where All Good Flappers Go - Essential Stories of the Jazz Age by David M. Earle (Editor); F. Scott Fitzgerald (Contribution by); Zelda Fitzgerald (Contribution by); Anita Loos (Contribution by); Dorothy Parker (Contribution by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
"I believe in the flapper as an artist in her particular field, the art of being - being young, being lovely." -- Zelda Fitzgerald A sparkling new collection of "flapper fiction" stories featuring the iconic women who defined the Jazz Age Edited and introduced by David M. Earle Vivacious, ch ...Show more
Where Angels Fear To Tread by E M Forster
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
When attractive, impulsive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior. Her prim, snobbish in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval, and when Lidia's decision eventually brings disaster, he ...Show more
While the Billy Boils by HENRY LAWSON
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Imprint Classics Ser.
While the Billy Boils' includes Henry Lawson's classic story "The Union Buries Its Dead" - as well as "The Drover's Wife", "The Bush Undertaker", and "That There Dog of Mine". Stark, moving, and humming with life, these well known and loved stories bring us the bush of Australian legend, and the imagina ...Show more
White Fang by jack London
$21.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The story of hybrid wolf White Fang, a hero of the north. Born to harsh conditions, White Fang experiences the violence of the animal and human worlds first hand. From fighting for his life in the Yukon, to fighting for his family in California, the tribulations and courage of White Fang endure and insp ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithRegarded as one of world literature's foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short stories are also some of th ...Show more
White Nights (Little Black Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$4.99 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
Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
"The most precious book of my childhood. --Sir David Attenborough An elegant and faithful reproduction of a classic. Ernest Thompson Seton was born in England in 1860. He grew up in Toronto and from an early age his overriding passion was observation of the natural world. He spent countless hours in t ...Show more
Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple. The shif ...Show more
Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more t ...Show more