Browse by category
Dubliners by JOYCE JAMES
29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Dubliners is a landmark in modern literature, and one of the twentieth century's finest collections of short stories. In its remarkable portrait of a city and its people, it dramatises ordinary life in the modern world. Together, the stories form one interwoven tapestry which provides a rich and subtle ...Show more
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
"FICTIONS is perhaps the single most mysterious and extraordinary collection of short stories written this century. Influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes, Borges is nethertheless a complete original who can turn dry logical puzzles in to enchanting fables. The Piec ...Show more
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoevsky
38.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
From the renowned translators- a new rendering-certain to become the definitive version-of the first great prison memoir, a fictionalized account of the writer's life-changing penal servitude in Siberia.In 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participa ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up with her u ...Show more
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
42.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty anaolgy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her p ...Show more
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman; Polly Jones (Introduction by); Robert Chandler (Translator)
39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an immense ...Show more
Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
29.95 AUD
42.99 (30% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Lolita" tells the story of aging Hubert Humbert who has an obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze. It is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. All in all, "Lolita" is filled with awe and exhilaration, along ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
This is a journey through madness and death resulting in stylized violence, narrated with irony and lyricism by Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acerbic and visionary portrait of the United States, its suburban horrors, and of motel and plastic culture.
Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; Laura Thompson (Introduction by)
34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew t ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
IN
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
34.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, "The Pickwick Papers." Set against London's seedy back street slums, "Oliver Twist" is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorri ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Probably Garcma Marquez's finest and most famous work. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of a mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendma family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, alive with unforgettable men and women, and with a trut ...Show more