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The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption. Graham Greene explores corruption an ...Show more
The Prophet: The Complete Original Edition: Essential Pocket Classics (PB) by Kahlil Gibran
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
The Prophet and Other Tales (Word Cloud Classics) by Kahlil Gibran
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
A classical work of philosophy that has inspired readers around the world for generations. Upon its initial publication in 1923, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet garnered little acclaim, but it became a critical success in the 1930s and again in the 1960s when it inspired a generation of readers with its ...Show more
The Prose Edda by Jesse L. Byock, Jesse L Byock
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves ...Show more
The Rainbow Serpent by Dick Roughsey
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
A timeless classic from the Dreamtime. there are innumerable names and stories associated with the Rainbow Serpent, all of which communicate the significance of this being within Aboriginal traditions. Dreamtime stories tell how the Rainbow Serpent came from beneath the ground and created huge ridges, m ...Show more
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version Of The Indian Epic by R. K. Narayan
$21.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling. 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, 'is aware of the story of The Ramayana. Everyone of whatever age, out ...Show more
The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his "Ruba'iyat". The short epigrammatic stanza form allowed poets of his day to express personal feelings, beliefs and doubts with wit and clarity, and Khayyam became one ...Show more
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 1 : I Know My Own Heart by Anne Lister
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller ? and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. Th ...Show more
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 2 - No Priest But Love by Anne Lister; Helena Whitbread (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK, THE ACCLAIMED BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES. 'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history; they changed everything. By resurrecting them and editing them with such loving attention and intelligence, Helen ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
$12.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Legend Classics Ser.
Part of the Legend Classics seriesAfter her parents' death, sickly ten-year-old Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle. Everyone sees her as a selfish and rude child, but she's also terribly lonely. She dislikes her new home, but one day she finds the key to a locked and negle ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
Nobody loves Mary - the heroine of the famous story of Francis Burnett "The Secret Garden". However, she does not burn with love for others, and moreover - she can not stand the whole world. And then her parents are passing away prematurely. There is an impression that nothing good can happen to her in ...Show more
The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, "The Sickness Unto Death" is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ...Show more