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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847-48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. The book's title comes from John Bunyan's allegorical story The Pilgrim's P ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 'I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year, 'observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thack ...Show more
Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
$29.99 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
'Is life worth living? Yes, a thousand times yes when the world still holds such spirits as Professor James.'- Gertrude Stein A classic of American thought, William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experienceis an extraordinary study of human spirituality in all its forms and one of the most prof ...Show more
Velveteen Rabbit by MARGERY WILLIAMS
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Dover Children's Classics Ser.
"What is REAL?" a shy stuffed animal asks an older and wiser plaything. Generations of children have found the answer to that vital question in The Velveteen Rabbit: Or, How Toys Become Real, the timeless story of a toy's transformation through the power of love. This gift edition of Margery Williams's ...Show more
Vera by Elizabeth Von Arnim
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is Wemyss's 'sweet girl', and to Lucy, Everard is the whole world. The only blot on Lucy's happiness is the shadowy figure of Wemyss's first wife, Vera, who died in mysterious circum ...Show more
Victorian Fairy Tales by Michael Newton (Editor)
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...' The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature of the period, and led to some of the most imaginative fairy tales ever written. They offer the shortest path to the age's dreams, desires, and wishes. Authors central ...Show more
W B Yeats Selected Poems - Crane Classics by William Butler Yeats
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Crown Classics Ser.
A collection of classic poems that provide an accessible introduction to the poetry of WB Yeats. Printed in a high quality, cloth edition each volume in the Crane Classics makes an attractive gift.
Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
$12.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Henry David Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts-part social experiment, part spiritual quest-is an enduringly influential American classic.In 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The inspiring and lyrica ...Show more
Walden and Civil Disobedience (Word Cloud Classics) by Henry David Thoreau
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
"If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."--Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience The oft-quoted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau is best known for two works: Walden and Civil Disobedience. Walden, first published in 1854, documents the time Thoreau spent livi ...Show more
Waltzing Matilda by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Desmond Digby (Illustrator)
$7.99 AUD
$14.99 (46% off)
Category: Children's Picture Paperback | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
This ballad of the sheep-stealing swagman is known the world over. Here, with 'Banjo' Paterson's original lyrics and Freya Blackwood's stunning ochre-toned paintings, we are treated not just to the swagman's story, but to the story of the shearers' strikes of the time, of the squatter's family, and of t ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more