Chapman's Homer :The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been portrayed in every generation. Chapman's translations are argued to be two of the liveliest and readable.
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr J ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is wittily combative until love prevails. Broader comedy is provided by Dogberry, Verges and the watchmen. The drama ranges between the destructively si ...Show more
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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
No Sugar by Jack Davis
22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Currency Plays
The family problems of Western Australian Aborigines in the 1930s (4 acts, 12 men, 8 women).
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. - "After Ford" - in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and operant conditioning that combine to profoun ...Show more
Cranford and Selected Short Stories by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); John Chapple (Intro and Notes by)
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Emeritus John Chapple, University of Hull. The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the de ...Show more
Othello by William Shakespeare
14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisatio ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. His colourful adventures, his endurance, his love for his wife and son have the same power to move and inspire readers today as they did ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an 'ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Ha ...Show more