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A Parisian Affair (Penguin pocket classics) by Guy de Maupassant
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Pocket Classics
'Nowhere could she discover the dens of iniquity about which she had dreamed...' Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly h ...Show more
Bedtime Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller's art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire. From the surreal night visions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman B ...Show more
Berlin Stories by Hensher Philip
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
A gorgeously jacketed hardback anthology of classic stories set in Berlin, by an array of writers from Germany, England, Ireland, the USA, Russia, Switzerland, Belgium and Mexico. Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, 'has always been a city of desperate modernity', both in ...Show more
Hagakure: Book of the Samurai - Pocket by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: Pocket Classic
The Book of the Samurai. 'Hagakure' is a treatise on the samurai code written by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, an 18th-century samurai. It's a guide, organized as a loose collection of thoughts, on how samurai should conduct themselves. This philosophy - bushido, or 'the way of the samurai' - is, according to Tsu ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? . . . Or is he all of these?
Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh by Thich Nhat Hanh
11.99 AUD
Category: Spirituality | Series: Pocket Classic
This is a collection of powerful and inspiring teachings in an appealing, convenient pocket-size book from one of today's most important and beloved spiritual teachers, the Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Next to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh is the best-known Buddhist teacher in the w ...Show more
Russian Stories by Christoph Keller (Editor)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
Two centuries of short stories by twenty-five titans of Russian literature, from Pushkin and Gogol to Tatyana Tolstaya and Svetlana Alexievich, in the beautifully jacketed Pocket Classics series. Russian Stories rounds up marvellous short stories by all the Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Lerm ...Show more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Fiction | Series: Enriched Classics (Pocket)
This allegorical novel, set in sixth-century India around the time of the Buddha, follows a young man on his search for enlightenment. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeli ...Show more
Stories from the Kitchen by Diana Secker Tesdell
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Category: Anthologies | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics
Stories from the Kitchen is a mouth-watering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role, by a rich variety of authors from Dickens, Chekhov and Saki to Isak Dinesen, Jim Crace and Amy Tan. The menu includes choice titbits from famous novels: the triumphant boeuf en daube served in Virginia Wo ...Show more
Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests
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Category: Anthologies | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards. This delightful collection ranges from Ovid to Austen and from Robin Hood's Sherwood For ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, hands ...Show more
The Prophet: The Complete Original Edition: Essential Pocket Classics (PB) by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Poetry | Series: Essential Pocket Classics Ser.
A new edition of the beloved spiritual classicKahlil Gibran's The Prophet is a timeless classic, a guiding light of spiritual fiction that has shaped the hearts and souls of readers since it was first published in 1923. Translated into more than 40 languages around the globe, The Prophet is an inspirati ...Show more