Classic Fiction Books
Classic Fiction Books
Brideshead Revisited : The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War.
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford, then
R 178,50
Bleak House
Dominated by the oppressive force of Chancery, and considered by many to be both Dickens' greatest work and the finest novel of the Victorian age, Bleak House is a dark, complex and intricately plotted mystery that culminates in one of the great chases of the detective genre.
R 153,00
Caravan to Vaccares
The classic tale of suspense set in Provence, where an English tourist investigates a series of mysterious deaths, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
R 195,50
R 230,00
Black Shack Alley
"Joseph Zobel's semi-autobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of Josae, a young boy in colonial Martinique. This edition features a new foreword by Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau"--
R 263,50
After Midnight
Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, a masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations
'I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned insane' Sunday Telegraph
Nineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. What's more, her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have
R 178,50
R 210,00
A Tale of Two Cities (Seasons Edition -- Winter)
A fine, exclusive edition of one of literature's most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, all titles in this series will be first editions. Only 10,000 copies will ever be printed, and each will be individually numbered from 1 to 10,000.
R 416,50
R 490,00
Buster
Never before published in standalone volume form since its original publication in the inaugural New Writers anthology in 1961, Buster is characteristically succinct and of huge literary merit, but in its autobiographical and pre-aleatoric style it provides, perhaps more importantly, a key to understanding the rest of Burns's works.
R 199,75
R 235,00
Animal Farm : The Graphic Novel
The first ever graphic novel version of Animal Farm
Animal Farm is the story of what happens when the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, and how their revolution goes horribly wrong. Now George Orwell's dark, timeless fable has been turned into a graphic novel for the very first time, illustrated in full colour by the renowned Brazilian artist Odyr to bring us a whole new work of art.
R 335,75
R 395,00
Agnes Grey
Anne Bronte's classic debut novel about life as a Victorian governess, with a new introduction by historian and biographer Juliet Barker.
R 161,50
R 190,00
American Classics Collection
A beautiful box set containing four of the most loved American classics: The Beautiful and Damned, The House of Mirth, The Scarlet Letter and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
R 510,00
R 600,00
Amerika
`He is the greatest German writer of our time' Vladimir NabakovAfter an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, sixteen-year-old Karl Rossman is banished to America by his parents.
R 178,50
R 210,00
Billy Budd, Sailor
An innocent young man is falsely accused of inciting mutiny in this haunting tale. Melville's final novel offers a profoundly moving examination of the balance between authority and individual rights.
R 55,25
R 65,00
Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic Stories
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
R 59,50
R 70,00
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce's seminal work of modernist fiction.
R 161,50
R 190,00
Aesop's Fables
A collection of 284 animal fables first told by the Greek slave Aesop.
R 255,00
R 300,00
Aesop's Fables
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
R 59,50
R 70,00
Around the World in Eighty Days
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
R 59,50
R 70,00
A Tale of Two Cities
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
R 59,50
R 70,00
Blandings Castle and Elsewhere : (Blandings Castle)
Within the ivied walls of Blandings Castle there are snakes in the rolling parkland ready to nip Clarence, the absent-minded Ninth Earl of Emsworth, when he least expects it. Empress of Blandings, in the running for her first prize in the Fat Pigs Class, is off her food - and can only be coaxed back to the trough by a call in her own language.
R 210,00
Ape and Essence
A dystopian classic
In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. The expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite unprepared for the moral degradation they meet.
R 178,50
R 210,00
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Both an insight into James Joyce's life and childhood, this novel is about sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to fully come into themselves.
R 140,25
R 165,00
A Little Princess
Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became "show pupil" - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances.
R 76,50
R 90,00
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Join Huck and Jim as their boyhood adventures along the Mississippi River lead them into a world of excitement, danger, and self-discovery. Humorous narrative, lyrical descriptions of the Mississippi valley, and memorable characters.
R 124,10
R 146,00