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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
14.99 AUD
Category: Crime, Mystery & Thriller | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: good
"WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID PEACE This volume collects together Sherlock Holmes s most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious heists, murderous plots and hidden jewels, which take the famous detective and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson from t ...Show more
The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters (HB) by Michel de Montaigne; Donald Frame (trans.); Stuart Hampshire (intro)
49.99 AUD
Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Everyman's Library Classics | Reading Level: very good
Describing his collection of Essays as 'a book consubstantial with its author', Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures in European literature. A humanist, a sceptic, an acute observer of himself and others, he reflects the gr ...Show more
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 1-3 by Edward Gibbon
95.00 AUD
129.00 (26% off)
Category: History & Humanities | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was in its time a landmark in classical and historical scholarship and remains a remarkable fresh and powerful contribution to the interpretation of Roman history more than two hundred years after its first appea ...Show more
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 4-6 by Edward Gibbon
95.00 AUD
129.00 (26% off)
Category: History & Humanities | Series: Everyman's Library Classics S.
This boxed set of Volumes 4-6 (The Eastern Empire) completes the Everyman set. Volumes 1-3 (The Western Empire) were published in 1993. Even after 200 years, Gibbon's book is still an authoritative work on Roman history.
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry Carlisle (Translator)
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
In The Idiot, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become riva ...Show more
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald (Translator)
12.99 AUD
Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Classics Library
In the renowned translation by Edward FitzGerald, with an introduction by Professor Cedric Watts. Here is Edward FitzGerald's original translation of the Rubáiyát, the collection of poems attributed to the Persian astronomer and mathematician, Omar Khayyám. FitzGerald's distinctive version (1859) ...Show more
The Susan Effect by Peter Hoeg
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics | Reading Level: very good
Susan Svendsen has a special talent: she has a unique ability to make people confide in her and tell her their innermost secrets. She has exploited that talent, and now has a prison sentence hanging over her head for punching a Bollywood actor in an Indian casino. To make matters worse, her husband is o ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Peter Merchant (Intro and Notes by)
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Too often overshadowed by her sister's more famous novels of passionate romance, Anne Bronte's novel is shockingly contemporary in its concerns, daring in its conception and uncompromising in its realistic portrayal of an abusive husband and a woman's will to survive.When the mysterious and beautiful yo ...Show more
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
The Tsar of Love and Techno begins in 1930s Leningrad, where a failed portrait artist is tasked by Soviet censors to erase political dissenters from official images and artworks. One day, he receives an antique painting of a dacha inside a box of images meant to be altered. The mystery behind this paint ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
14.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: good-very good
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes.At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly en ...Show more