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Youth
by Isaac Asimov
Emma by
Jane Austen.
Austen was a keen observer of social
class and customs, and Emma is no
exception. Considered the author's
masterpiece, Austen believed she had
created "a heroine whom no one but
myself will much like." A comical book
largely about Emma's errors of judgment,
Austen adeptly keeps us from disliking
her blundering heroine.
AU$1.60
Pride
and Pejudice by Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet is a country
gentleman's daughter in 19th Century
England. She is one of five daughters, a
plight that her father bears as best he
can with common sense and a general
disinterest in the silliness of his
daughters. Elizabeth is his favorite
because of her level-headed approach to
life when his own wife's greatest
concern is getting her daughters married
off to well-established gentlemen. Only
Jane, Elizabeth's older sister, is
nearly as sensible and practical as
Elizabeth, but Jane is also the beauty
of the family, and therefore, Mrs.
Bennet's highest hope for a good match.
AU$1.60
Anna of the
Five Towns by Arnold Bennett.
Anna Tellwright, is the daughter
of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial
father, living in the
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte.
After
eight years of school Jane decides to
leave, like her friend and confidante
Miss Temple. She advertises her services
as a governess, and receives one reply.
It is from Alice Fairfax, who is a
keeper of Thornfield Hall. She takes the
position, caring for Adele Varens, a
young French girl. While walking on a
spring day Jane comes across a horseman,
the horse slips on ice and throws the
rider. He calls Jane a witch, claiming
she bewitched the horse. She then
realizes that this man is Edward
Rochester, master of the house.
AU$1.60
Tarzan
of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The first Tarzan story of John Clayton,
born in the western coastal
The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice
Burroughs
Not long after
The
Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie.
Young couple Tommy Beresford and Tuppence
Cowley form a partnership, hiring themselves
out as ”young adventurers”. Their first
case, however, is more of an adventure than
they expect – working to find documents
that, if they were known to the general
public, would fuel a communist revolution in
Britain..
AU$1.80
The
Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha
Christie.
Captain Arthur Hastings is wounded and
sent home from WW1. He meets his friend
John Cavendish, who offers him a stay at
his (or rather his step-mother's) house,
called, "Styles." Hastings accepts
and is introduced to the other
members of the household, which include
Mr. Inglethorp, the new husband of Mrs.
Cavendish (John's step-mother.) No one
likes him, except his wife, and no one
trusts him. Naturally, when Mrs.
Inglethorp is murdered about a week
after Hastings arrives, everyone
suspects Mr. Inglethorp. Enter Hercule
Poirot, the famous Belgian detective,
who was recently refugeed to England
from the War. This interesting case was
Poirot's first in England, and it will
begin his long career there...
. AU$1.80
The Adventure
of the Bruce Partington Plan by Arthur
Conan Doyle. The monotony of
The
Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre
Dumas. In Alexandre Dumas's
The Count of Monte Cristo,
handsome Edmond Dantčs escapes from
Chateau d'If after being imprisoned for
14 years. With knowledge he gained in
prison, he locates an immense treasure,
recreates himself as a count, and vows
to reward those who were kind to him and
to punish the enemies who conspired to
imprison him. Alexandre Dumas spins a
rollicking tale of adventure, wit,
revenge, and hope.. AU$1.60
The Forsyte
Saga by John Galsworthy
a series of three
She
by H. Rider Haggard is one of the most
spellbinding
Allan Quartermain by Henry Rider
Haggard 'I
have just buried my boy, my poor
handsome boy of whom I was so proud,
and my heart is broken. '
The above, signed 'Allan Quatermain',
is an extract from my diary written
two years and more ago. I copy it
down here because it seems to me
that it is the fittest beginning to
the history that I am about to
write, if it please God to spare me
to finish it. If not, well it does
not matter. AU$1.80
Allan's Wife by H. Rider Haggard
I have often thought (Mr. Quatermain's
manuscript begins) that I would set down on paper the events connected with my
marriage, and the loss of my most dear wife. Many years have now passed since
that event, and to some extent time has softened the old grief, though Heaven
knows it is still keen enough.
AU$1.60
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Generally
speaking, elephant hunters are a rough
set of men, but here and there you meet
a man who takes the trouble to collect
traditions from the natives, and tries
to make out a little piece of the
history of this dark land. It was such a
man as this who first told me the legend
of Solomon's Mines, now a matter of
nearly thirty years ago. That was when I
was on my first elephant hunt in the
Matalebe country. His name was Evans.'
Lad,
did you ever hear of the Suliman
Mountains up to the north-west of the
Mushakulumbwe country?' I told him I
never had. 'Ah, well,' he said, 'that is
where Solomon really had his mines, his
diamond mines, I mean.' AU$1.80
She and Allan by H. Rider Haggard 'This
strange woman, whom I had met in the
ruins of a place called Kôr, without any
doubt had thrown a glamour over my
senses and at the moment almost caused
me to believe much that is quite
unbelievable. She had suggested that her
life had been prolonged far beyond our
mortal span, for hundreds and hundreds
of years, indeed; which, as Euclid says,
is absurd, and had pretended to
supernatural powers.
Moreover,
by a clever use of some hypnotic or
mesmeric power, she had to
transport me to some place beyond the
earth and in the Halls of Hades to show
me what is veiled from the eyes of man,
and not only me, but the savage warrior
Umhlopekazi, commonly called Umslopogaas
of the Axe, who, with Hans, a Hottentot,
was my companion upon that adventure....' AU$1.60
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling. It was
seven o'clock of a very warm evening in
the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke
up from his day's rest, scratched
himself, yawned, and spread out his paws
one after the other to get rid of the
sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother
Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped
across her four tumbling, squealing
cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth
of the cave where they all lived.
AU$1.80
The
Second Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling.
The Law of
the Jungle—which is by far the oldest
law in the world—has arranged for almost
every kind of accident that may befall
the Jungle People, till now its code is
as perfect as time and custom can make
it. You will remember that Mowgli spent
a great part of his life in the Seeonee
Wolf-Pack, learning the Law from Baloo,
the Brown Bear; and it was Baloo who
told him, when the boy grew impatient at
the constant orders, that the Law was
like the Giant Creeper, because it
dropped across every one's back and no
one could escape...AU$1.80
The
Man Who Would Be King
by Rudyard Kipling.
'I
have been fellow to a beggar again and
again under circumstances which
prevented either of us finding out
whether the other was worthy. I have
still to be brother to a Prince, though
I once came near to kinship with what
might have been a veritable King and was
promised the reversion of a Kingdom —
army, law-courts, revenue and policy all
complete. But, to-day, I greatly fear
that my King is dead, and if I want a
crown I must go and hunt it for myself.'
AU$1.60
Lady
Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence.
Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by
Sons and
Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, taken by many
to be his earliest masterpiece, tells
the story of Paul Morel, a young man and
budding artist. When
you have experienced Sons and Lovers
you have lived through the agonies
of the young Lawrence striving to
win free from his old life.
Generally, it is not only considered
as an evocative portrayal of
working-class life in a mining
community, but also an intense study
of family, class and early sexual
relationships. AU$1.60
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis.
Arrowsmith tells the story of bright
and scientifically minded Martin
Arrowsmith as he makes his way from a
small town in the
Midwest to the upper echelons of the
scientific community. It was published
in 1925 and won the 1926
Pulitzer Prize for Lewis but he
refused to accept it. Lewis was greatly
assisted in its preparation by science
writer Dr.
Paul de Kruif, who received 25% of
the royalties on sales, but Lewis is
listed as sole author. Arrowsmith
is arguably the earliest major novel to
deal with the culture of
science. The book's climax deals
with Dr. Arrowsmith's discovery of a
phage that destroys bacteria and his
experiences as he faces an outbreak of
bubonic plague on a fictional
Caribbean island. AU$1.60
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis.
Babbitt,
first published in
1922, is a novel by
Sinclair Lewis. Largely a
satire of
American culture, society, and
behavior, it critiques the
vacuity of
middle-class American life and its
pressure on individuals toward
conformity. AU$1.60
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis.
Elmer Gantry is a
satirical
novel written by
Sinclair Lewisin 1926. The novel
tells the story of a young,
narcissistic, womanizing college
athlete who abandons his early ambition
to become a lawyer. The legal profession
does not suit the unethical Gantry, who
then becomes a notorious and cynical
alcoholic. AU$1.60
Cas Timberlane by Sinclair Lewis.
Cass Timberlane is a
novel written by
Sinclair Lewis, published in 1945.
It is Sinclair Lewis' nineteenth novel
and one of his last. Former Congressman
and now Judge Cass Timberlane is a
middle-aged, incorruptible,
highly-respected man who enjoys good
books and playing the flute. He falls
for Jinny, a much younger girl from a
lower class in his small Minnesota town.
At first, the marriage is happy, but
Jinny becomes bored with the small town
and with the judge's friends. She leaves
him for an affair with a lawyer,
Timberlane's boyhood friend. AU$1.60
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis.
Another of Lewis' great satirical looks
at America. Carol Milford is a liberal,
free-spirited young woman, reared in the
metropolis of St. Paul. She marries Will
Kennicott, a doctor, who is a small-town
boy at heart. When they marry, Will
convinces her to live in his home-town
of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota and Carol
is appalled at the backwardness of
Gopher Prairie. But her disdain for the
town's physical ugliness and smug
conservatism compels her to reform it.
AU$1.60
Gone with the
Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
Truly one of the greatest known novels
of our times, not just a romance, but an
epic on the history of slavery in the
South and the American Civil War.
AU$2.50
Animal Farm by George Orwell.
'All people are equal, but some are more
equal than others' Orwell's famous
satire on communism. A great read.
AU$2.50
1984 by George Orwell.
As literary
political fiction, Nineteen
Eighty-Four is considered a classic
novel of the
social science fiction subgenre.
Since its publication in 1949, many of
its terms and concepts, such as
Big Brother,
doublethink,
thoughtcrime,
Newspeak, and
Memory hole, have become
contemporary
vernacular. In addition, the novel
popularized the adjective
Orwellian, which refers to lies,
surveillance, or manipulation of the
past in the service of a totalitarian
agenda. In 1998, the
Modern Library ranked Nineteen
Eighty-Four 13th on its list of the
100 best English-language novels of the
20th century.AU$2.50. This book available
in Australia, Canada, Russia and South
Africa only, it is still under copyright
in other countries, 
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
This is an illustrated version
AU$2.00
Lair of the
White Worm by Bram Stoker.The plot focuses on Adam Salton,
originally from
Australia, who is contacted by his
great-uncle, Richard Salton, in
England for the purpose of establishing
a relationship between these last two
members of the family. His great-uncle
wants to make Adam his heir. Adam
travels to Richard Salton's house in
Mercia, Lesser Hill, and quickly finds
himself at the centre of mysterious and
inexplicable occurrences. The new heir
to the Caswall estate, known as Castra
Regis, the Royal Camp, Edgar Caswall,
appears to be making some sort of a
mesmeric assault on a local girl, Lilla
Watford, while a local lady, Arabella
March, seems to be running a game of her
own, perhaps angling to become Mrs.
Caswall. Adam then discovers a child who
has been bitten on the neck. The child
barely survives. He learns that another
child was killed earlier while animals
were also killed in the region. He
discovers The White Worm is a large
snake-like creature that dwells in a
hole or pit in Arabella's house located
in Diana's Grove. The White Worm has
green glowing eyes and feeds on whatever
is thrown to it in the pit. The White
Worm ascends from the pit and seeks to
attack Adam and Mimi Watford in a
forest, this is when Adam seeks to
destroy it. AU$2.00