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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday- Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed i ...Show more
Collins Classics - The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
★The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn★ Referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event of my whole life"; Ernest Hemingway declared that "all modern American literature stems from this one book," while T. S. ...Show more
Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by EDGAR ALLAN POE
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
A new collectable edition of Poe's poetry which demonstrates his skilful and imaginative command of the English language. Often regarded as the founder of the modern short story Poe also laid the foundations for the symbolist poets and futurists of the 20th Century, his razor-sharp dissections of the wo ...Show more
Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff
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Category: New Age | Series: Classics in Human Development Ser.
Jean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years in the South American jungle living with Stone Age Indians. The experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and led her to a radically different view of what human nature really is. She offers a new understanding of ...Show more
Cosmo Cosmolino - Text Classics by Helen Garner; Ramona Koval (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
'Helen Garner writes the best sentences in Australia.'Bulletin Janet is a skeptic, a journalist; Maxine revels in New Age fantasies; and Ray, a drifter, is a born-again Christian. The common ground is the house they share. But their fragile domestic balance is about to explode amid the smashing of ukel ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Crime and punishment is probably Dostoevsky's most read and known novel and one of the most famous literary works of all time. Published in installments in 1866 in the journal «Russkij vestnik» («The Russian Messenger»), it is the story of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, which the author describes in a l ...Show more
Darkness Visible by William Styron
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Category: Health | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With profound insight and remarkable candor, the author tracks the progress of his madness, from the smothering misery and exhaustion, to the agony of composing his own suicide note and his eventual, hard-won recovery.
Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy; T. C. B. Cook (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy s late fiction and the first major fictional work to be published by the author after his crisis and conversion to Christianity. The story of the life and death at the age of forty-five, of a high court prosecutor in 19th-century Russia, it ...Show more
Death of an Airman by Christopher Sprigg (Artist); Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
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Category: Bargains | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
George Furnace, flight instructor at Baston Aero Club, dies instantly when his plane crashes into the English countryside. People who knew him are baffled - Furnace was a first-rate pilot, and the plane was in perfect condition - and the inquest records a verdict of death by misadventure. An Australian ...Show more
Death on the Riviera by John Bude; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
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Category: Bargains | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder "There are occasional splashes of witty dialogue and luscious descriptions of the French Riviera; also, every suspect has at least one guilty secret." --Publishers Weekly When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera, De ...Show more
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel - With the Life of Dr. John Donne by Izaak Walton by John Donne; Andrew Motion (Preface by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Spiritual Classics Ser.
John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well known, is no less profound and beautiful. Born into an aristocratic Catholic family, Donne joined the Church of England at the age of twenty-one ...Show more