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The Remarkable Secret of Aurelie Bonhoffen (Children's Classic) by ABELA DEBORAH
$9.95 AUD
Category: Young Readers | Series: Vintage Classics
A quirky and mysterious tale of friends, fire-twirlers and ghosts from one of Australia's best storytellers. Ever since Aurelie Bonhoffen was a child, she has juggled, played the dead girl on the ghost train and the back end of the cow in the marquee of Bonhoffen's Seaside Pier. She adores her family - ...Show more
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bedier; Hilaire Belloc (Translator)
$22.00 AUD
$24.99 (11% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The doomed romance between a Cornish knight and an Irish princess is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, echoing through the Arthurian tale of Lancelot and Guinevere and inspiring the Wagner opera. Hilaire Belloc fluidly translated B dier's 1913 vivid retelling into English.
The Scarlet Letter (Vintage Past) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbors she has committed an unforgivable sin. Everyone knows that her little daughter, Pearl, is the product of an illicit affair but no one knows the identity of Pearl's father. Hester's refusal to name him brings m ...Show more
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
$12.95 AUD
$26.99 (52% off)
Category: Accessories | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage.
The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Simone de Beauvoir
$12.99 AUD
$14.99 (13% off)
Category: Accessories | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form. This book comes with an introduction by Natalie Haynes. When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir's belief that 'On ...Show more
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'In 1973 (Matthiessen) joined with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region called bharal. They also hoped to see the rare snow leopard, an almost mythical creature which Schaller once glimpsed on a previous visit. Matthiessen i ...Show more
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
$12.95 AUD
$24.99 (48% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe.
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more
The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, this book is not only a classic avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literature, art, drama and philosophy, but also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft.
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$14.99 AUD
$24.99 (40% off)
Category: Australia | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.' In TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG, the l ...Show more
The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
$19.95 AUD
$26.99 (26% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With the androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, this title takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.
The War of the Worlds (Vintage Classics Sci-Fi range) by H. G. Wells
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The War of the Worlds By H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds describes the fictional 1895 invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars who use laser-like Heat-Rays, chemical weapons, and mechanical three-legged ''fighting machines'' that could potentially be viewed as precursors to the tank. After defeating the r ...Show more