Reader's Feast - Classics

War & Peace
Price: AUD 55.00 Author: Leo Tolstoy

This edition of Tolstoy's masterpiece is part of the attractive Vintage Classics range. These are affordable hardback editions that are appealingly designed. This story of the Bolkonsky and Rostov families and of Count Pierre Bezukhov is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Momentous events happening in the community at large are framed by the everyday familial trials and triumphs of these characters.

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Russian Fairy Tales
Price: AUD 36.95 Author: Alexander Afanasyev

On publication in 1945, this anthology of Russian fairy tales was described by one reviewer as rambunctious and full-blooded. It still stands as the most comprehensive collection of folk and fairy tales translated from the Russian into English. Alexander Afanasyev, working in the 1800s, recorded and published more than six hundred tales during his lifetime.

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Doctor Zhivago
Price: AUD 24.95 Author: Boris Pasternak

Fifty years after his death, Boris Pasternak's literary creation Yuri Zhivago remains a character for all times, railing against the way the individual is caught up by forces and circumstances beyond one's control and by the power of love.

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Siddhartha
Price: AUD 22.95 Author: Hermann Hesse

Considered a masterpiece of spiritual writing, Hesse creates a character, Siddhartha, who must transcend the distractions and temptations of daily living if he is to fulfil his true destiny.

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The Leopard
Price: AUD 24.95 Author: Tomasi di Lampedusa

This modern classic was published, along with a handful of other writings, after the author's death and tells the story of the Prince of Salina who in the spring of 1860 had to navigate his people through the changes that were coming on the tide of Gariba

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Ad Nauseam
Price: AUD 24.95 Author: Lorna Robinson

What sets this apart from similar collections of Latin verse is the inclusion of Roman mosaic illustrations, making it a lovely edition. It also includes a pronunciation guide and word finder.

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Complete Works - William Shakespeare
Price: AUD 95.00 Author: Edited by Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen

Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this new Complete Works combines the very latest scholarship with elegant writing and design. It boasts: a definitive modernized edition of Shakespeare's text based on the 1623 "First Folio" (th

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The Aeneid Virgil
Price: AUD 59.95 Author: Translated by Robert Fagles

The city of Troy has been ransacked by conquering Greeks and lies in smouldering ruins. A warrior, Aeneas, manages to escape from the ashes. He will go on to change the history of the world... This is the much anticipated new version of Virgil's epic poem

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