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The Brothers Grimm: Volume II - 110 Grimmer Fairy Tales (Word Cloud Classics) by The Brothers Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm; Jacob Grimm
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Terrifying tales and frightening fables at their finest We all know the stories--or do we? We know who Snow White is, but what about Rose Red? And what happens to an all-too willful child? Learn more intriguing stories about "Wise Folks," "The King's Son Who Feared Nothing," and . . . well . . . "Do ...Show more
The Complete Essays by Michel Montaigne, de Montaigne Michel
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and thinking. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'assays', inspired by ideas he found in the books of his library and his own experience. He discussed subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
$55.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
The novels included in the collection - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan - represent all of Austen's complete novels, and provide the reader with an entrance into the world she and her memorable characters inhabited.
The Epic of Gilgamesh by N K Sandars, N. K. Sandars
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literatureMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells ...Show more
The Essential Philosophical Works by David Hume
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics of World Literature Ser.
With an introduction by Charlotte R. Brown and William Edward Morris. David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740), published while Hume was sti ...Show more
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, James Baldwin
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$33.00 (30% off)
Category: Politics, Religion, History & Current Affairs | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time st ...Show more
The Game of Life and How to Play It: Foreword by Louise Hay by Florence Scovel Shinn
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Category: No Category | Series: Hay House Classics Ser.
A self-help classic since 1925, The Game of Life and How to Play It uses real-life stories and practical wisdom to guide readers to prosperity through a positive attitude. The Game of Life and How to Play It is now reset and grouped together with three other short books by Florence Scovel Shinn for ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerv ...Show more
The Great Gatsby and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Love, ambition, and wealth take center stage in this collection of classic stories from the Jazz Age. Often described as the “Great American Novel,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is the quintessential story of love, ambition, and wealth in the Roaring Twenties. In ...Show more
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begi ...Show more
The Histories by Herodotus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"The Histories" describes how a small band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. But while this epic struggle forms the core of his work, Herodotus' natural curiosity frequently gives rise to colourful digressions: a description of the natural wonders of Egypt; an account ...Show more
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars and society, and the eve ...Show more