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Water Babies (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Charles Kingsley
$6.95 AUD
Category: Art & Music | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bo ...Show more
Watermark: An Essay on Venice by Joseph Brodsky
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor". ("Wall Street Journal"). "Watermark" is Joseph Brodsky's witty, intelligent, moving and elegant portrait of Venice. Looking at every aspect of the city, from it ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
$19.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
We of the Never-Never by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn
$19.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics
In 1902, newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left the security and comfort of her Melbourne home to travel to the depths of the Northern Territory, where her husband had been appointed manager of The Elsey, a large cattle station. One of the very few white women in the area, she was at first re ...Show more
We of the Never-Never and The Little Black Princess by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: A&R Classics
The original, autobiographical account of life and love in the Australian bush. In 1902, Jeannie Gunn, a Melbourne schoolteacher, went with her new husband to live on the remote Elsey cattle station near the Roper River in the Northern Territory. Though she spent little more than a year there, her exper ...Show more
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book.First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith’s contemporaries and became ...Show more
Welcome to Camp Nightmare GB by R L Stine
$9.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Goosebumps Classics (Reissues/Quality)
Next summer you'll stay home...if you survive! The food isn't great. The counselors are a little strange. And the camp director seems demented. Billy can handle all that. But then strange things start to happen after dark, his parents won't answer his letters, and his fellow campers start to disappear. ...Show more
Welcome to Dead House GB by STINE R L
$9.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Goosebumps Classics (Reissues/Quality)
Enter at your own Risk: The first ever Goosebumps. Now with creepy bonus features! 11-year-old Josh and 12-year-old Amanda just moved into the oldest and weirdest house on the block--the two siblings think it might even be haunted! But of course, their parents don't believe them. You'll get used to it, ...Show more
Well of Loneliness by RADCLYFFE HALL
$6.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
‘As a man loved a woman, that was how I loved…It was good, good, good…’ Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents – a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. A ...Show more
Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Michael Irwin (Intro and Notes by)
$6.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Classics Library
Wessex Tales is a collection of tales written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardy's birth in 1840In addition to his great "Wessex Novels," Thomas Hardy wrote Wessex Tales (1896), a collection of six stories written in the 1880s and 1890s that, for the most part, ...Show more
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
$5.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
What Katy DidKaty #1by Susan CoolidgeWhat Katy Did is an 1872 children's book written by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey under her pen name Susan Coolidge. It follows the adventures of a twelve-year-old American girl, Katy Carr, and her family who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio town of Burnet in the 1860s. ...Show more
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
$6.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-very good
'I mean to do something grand. I don't know what, yet; but when I'm grown up I shall find out'Katy Carr is the longest girl that was ever seen. She is all legs and elbows, and angles and joints. She tears her dress every day, hates sewing and doesn't care a button about being called 'good'. Her head is ...Show more