Lorna Doone AUD30.00
A Romance of Exmoor. The book is set in the 17th century in the Badgworthy Water region of Exmoor in Devon and Somerset, England. John Ridd is the son of a respectable farmer who was murdered in cold blood by one of the notorious Doone clan, a once noble family, now outlaws, in the isolated Doone Valley. Read More...
Selected and edited by Roger Hudson. The object of this book is to show Coleridge in yet another light, as one of the alert, attuned and sensitive recorders of nature, landscape, and the elements. Read More...
Four Quartets AUD28.00
A set of four poems, the central focus of which is man's relationship with time, the universe, and the divine. Read More...
The Magic Mountain AUD35.00
The narrative opens in the decade before World War I. We are introduced to the central protagonist of the story, Hans Castorp, the only child of a Hamburg mercantile family who, following the early death of his parents, has been brought up by his grandfather and subsequently by an uncle named James Tienappel. We encounter him when he is in his early 20s, about to take up a shipbuilding career in Hamburg, his home town. Read More...
Memoirs of a Georgian Rake AUD35.00
Engravings by John Lawrence. The reason Hickey's book has acquired classic status are that his really had been a 'strange and variegated life'. In addition, only part of it takes place in India or elsewhere abroad, while the rest is set in London at one of the most attractive and vibrant moments of its history. Read More...
Adventure Stories from the Strand AUD35.00
Introduction by Tim Heald. Collection of short stories from the Strand magazine. Read More...
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