Siddhartha (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
What is the purpose of life? Is religion the answer? How, in a world beset with misery and conflict, can we help to find inner peace? Siddhartha helped inspire the legions of counter-cultural 'hippies' and other refuseniks who challenged the Western capitalist order in the 1960s and 1970s. Brought to yo ...Show more
Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay by George Johnston
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Category: Classics | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
In the sequel to his semi-autobiographical novel My Brother Jack, George Johnston concludes his Meredith trilogy in this brilliantly evocative, single volume of books two and three: Clean Straw for Nothing (winner of the Miles Franklin Award) and A Cartload of Clay. Set against the backdrop of a Greek ...Show more
The Charterhouse of Parma
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Category: Classics
Headstrong and naive, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon. He stumbles on the Battle of Waterloo, ill-prepared, yet filled with enthusiasm for war and glory. Finally heeding advice, Fabrizio sneaks b ...Show more
On the Origin of Species - The Science Classic by Charles Darwin; Tom Butler-Bowdon (Series edited by); John van Wyhe (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Capstone Classics Ser.
A new, deluxe hardcover edition of one of the most important scientific works ever written In December 1831, Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle, accompanying her crew on a five-year journey that crossed the Atlantic Ocean to survey the coasts of South America. As the expedition's geologist and natur ...Show more
Jane Eyre (Alma Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre, leads a lonely life until she finds a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls at night. What is the sinister secret that threatens Jane and her new found happiness? Step int ...Show more
Frankenstein (Alma Classics) by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with Byron and Shelley to conjure up the most terrifying ghost ...Show more
Cafe Scheherazade: Text Classics by Arnold Zable
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade. Thus begins Arnold Zable's haunting meditation on displacement, and the way the effects of war linger in the minds of its survivors. In this deeply moving book we meet Avram and Masha, proprietors of the cafe, and hear the tales that ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's timeless satire'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.'Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon an ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics
'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house'He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth protrude menacingly from his mouth in clouds of rancid breath... Yet even Count Dracula's unnerving appearance and the frightened reaction of the local peasants fail to warn Jonathan H ...Show more
Orwell and Politics by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
This comprehensive collection brings together the best of George Orwell's powerful political essays and journalism with his timeless satire on totalitarianism, Animal Farm. They show the vast range of his political interests, with articles expressing his views on subjects from corrupt political language ...Show more
Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton
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Category: Classics
"Stylistically superb. . . . This packs a punch that will leave readers of any age reeling."--"School Library Journal," Starred "Sharper in focus and more mature in style than Hinton's The Outsiders."--"Booklist" "An ALA Best Books for Young Adults" "A" School Library Journal "Best Books of the Year" ...Show more
Love and Youth - Essential Stories by Ivan Turgenev ; Nicolas Slater (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
This collection, in a lyrical new translation by Nicolas Slater, places Turgenev's great novella First Love alongside a selection of his classic stories. From the evocative rural scenes of 'Bezhin Meadow' and 'Rattling Wheels', to the pathos and humanity of 'The District Doctor' and 'Biryuk', these are ...Show more