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AESOP'S FABLES by Aesop
$19.95 AUD
Category: Myths & Legends | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one", said the lioness, "but it is very well bred!"' The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, e ...Show more
An Australian Girl by Catherine Martin; Graham Tulloch (Editor); Amanda Nettlebeck (Editor)
$27.45 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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Bhagavad Gita by Anon
$16.95 AUD
Category: Spirituality | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Bhagavad Gita is the most widely read Hindu religious text in the Western world and a key work for understanding Indian religions and the way Hinduism has been represented in modern India and the West. The poem considers social and religious duty, the nature of sacrifice, and the relationship of hum ...Show more
Collected Ghost Stories (Oxford World Classics) by M. R. James
$30.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
"I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mold, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own..." Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic supe ...Show more
Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
$13.15 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pushkin's novel follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse.
Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
$18.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Your Jacques is a tasteless mishmash of things that happen, some of them true, others made up, written without style and served up like a dog's breakfast.' Jacques the Fatalist is Diderot's answer to the problem of existence. If human beings are determined by their genes and their environment, how can ...Show more
Lost World, The by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$14.25 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
A scientific expedition sets out to explore a plateau in South America that remains frozen in time from the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Seemingly impossible to penetrate, this lost world holds great danger for the men, from both fiendish ape-men and terrifying prehistoric creatures.
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
$19.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'can we doubt ...that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?' In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense length o ...Show more
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
$16.45 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The first World's Classics were introduced by some of the greatest writers of their day, including Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene and T.S. Eliot. In these new editions, contemporary novelists including A.S. Byatt and Joyce Carol Oates introduce their favourite classics in original pocketbook size.
Republic by Plato .
$15.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy. It is also a literary masterpiece: the philosophy is presented for the most part for the ordinary ...Show more
Teenage Writings by Jane Austen
$17.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Jane Austen practising' Virginia Woolf Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. By this point Austen was already an indiscriminat ...Show more
The Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
$47.95 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have been passed down from the seventeenth century to the present day. Perrault's tales were enjoyed in the salons of L ...Show more