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Unbranded: First Nations Classics by Herb Wharton, Kev Carmody
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: First Nations Classics Ser.
Written by the legendary Queensland drover Herb Wharton, this is a striking vision of outback Australia- the friendship story of three stockmen working on mulga country in the far west.Herb Wharton, former drover, now celebrated author, unleashes a strikingly original vision of outback Australia- from t ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Professor Harriet Beecher Stowe
$8.94 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Signet Classics (Paperback)
The iconic abolitionist novel-in a striking new package By exposing the extreme cruelties of slavery, Harriet Beecher Stowe explores society's failures and asks: "What is it to be a moral human being?" This is a powerful, triumphant work that is an essential part of the collective experience of the Amer ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Enriched Classics Ser.
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Harriet Beecher Stowe's scathing indictment of slavery in the Old South, a novel that has become a landmark of American literature. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: - A concise introduction that gives readers important background informatio ...Show more
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The 50th Anniversary Edition of Jacqueline Susann's All-Time Pop-Culture Classic The perfect gift for any Valley fan or your favorite Doll, featuring a new cover design - introduction by Simon Doonan - never-before-seen archival material - an essay from Jackie, "My Book Is Not Dirty " At a time when wom ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847-48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. The book's title comes from John Bunyan's allegorical story The Pilgrim's P ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 'I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year, 'observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thack ...Show more
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, "Vanity of Duluoz" presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack's glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel t ...Show more
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her own complex feelings, first for the ...Show more
Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, "Visions of Cody" is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this boo ...Show more
Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Henry David Thoreau s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts part social experiment, part spiritual quest is an enduringly influential American classic. In 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The inspiring and lyric ...Show more
Waltzing Matilda by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Desmond Digby (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Paperbacks | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 1-2, Age 6-7
This ballad of the sheep-stealing swagman is known the world over. Here, with 'Banjo' Paterson's original lyrics and Freya Blackwood's stunning ochre-toned paintings, we are treated not just to the swagman's story, but to the story of the shearers' strikes of the time, of the squatter's family, and of t ...Show more