A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they des ...Show more
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics
This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format.Roberta, Peter and Phyllis live happily in London with their parents. Then, suddenly, their father goes away. The children and their mother move to a smaller house near a railway line. Exciting things happen, and ...Show more
Peter Pan and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, wolves, mermaids and pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was ...Show more
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The delightful tales of whales and cats and kangaroos and crabs - everything from how the camel got in a humph (and got his hump!) to how the alphabet was invented. Enchanting and funny, these fantastical stories continue to delight each and every generation. With an inspiring written, inspiring introdu ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradIn Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the lo ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
First published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice is the most polished of Jane Austen's novels, with a humorous and upbeat mood. It was written at a time when the author's narrative powers were fully developed and the story flows with an ease that conceals the skill of its construction. The plot line follows ...Show more
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His jo ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, ...Show more