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A Fortunate Life: Australian Children's Classics by A. B. Facey; John Rose (Afterword by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Bert Facey saw himself as an ordinary man, but his remarkable story reveals an extraordinary life lived to the full.Bert Facey was a battler, ever optimistic and hopeful despite the hardships of his lfe. A true classic of Australian literature, his simply written autobiography is an inspiration.This edi ...Show more
A Guinea Pig Nativity by BLOOMSBURY
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Hardbacks | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
You know the story ...Mary and Joseph make the journey to Bethlehem, only to find there's no room at the inn. Then along come angels, shepherds and three kings from afar to worship the baby Jesus in the manger. A Guinea Pig Nativity is the classic Christmas story as you've never seen it before: with (yo ...Show more
A Heart So White (PB) by Javier Marias
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"A Heart so White" is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe. "A Heart so White" begins as ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictiona ...Show more
A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
$7.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Signet Classics (Paperback)
From a father of science fiction--a perilous and astonishing adventure into the earth's core that details encounters with natural hazards, 40 foot mushrooms, and prehistoric beasts After decoding a scrap of paper in runic script, the intrepid Professor Lidenbrock and his nervous nephew Axel travel acros ...Show more
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (HB) by Jules Verne
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Award Essential Classics Ser.
When adventure-hungry Professor Liedenbrock discovers a coded message in an old manuscript, it leads him and his reluctant nephew, Axel, to faraway Iceland. There they search for a secret passage into the heart of a volcano, where a thrilling world of danger and discovery awaits them at the center of th ...Show more
A Lifetime on Clouds (Text Classics) by Gerald Murnane
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Adrian Sherd is a teenage boy in Melbourne of the 1950s - the last years before television and the family car changed suburbia forever. Earnest and isolated, tormented by his hormones and his religious devotion, Adrian dreams of elaborate orgies with American film stars, and of marrying his sweetheart a ...Show more
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$8.94 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: very good
When Sara Crewe's father is made bankrupt, she is reduced to poverty. At Miss Minchin's school, where she had been a privileged student, she is now forced to work as a servant. But Sara has a loving heart, and she knows that with the right spirit she can remain a princess inside.
A Little Princess (HB) by BURNETT FRANCES HODGSON
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Award Essential Classics Ser.
• Quality hardback editions • Enduring classic stories • Complete and unabridged • A story to enchant every reader • Highly collectable series of 24 titles • Foiled covers
A Little Princess (Word Cloud Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Captain Crewe, a wealthy English widower, has been raising his only child, Sara, in India where he is stationed with the British Army. Because the Indian climate is considered too harsh for children, British families living there traditionally send their children to boarding school back home in England. ...Show more
A Little Princess (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$6.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became "show pupil" - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances. Her strong character enables her to fig ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
$6.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Its l ...Show more