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Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Unique among Jack Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerardfocuses on the scenes and sensations of childhood - -the wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, evil, insight, suffering, delight, and shock -- as they were revealed in the short tragic-happy life of his saintly brother, Gerard. Set in Kerouac's home ...Show more
Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Henry David Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts-part social experiment, part spiritual quest-is an enduringly influential American classic.In 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The inspiring and lyrica ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more
Washington Square by Henry James
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. This novel interweaves the public and private faces of nineteenth-century New York society; it is also a ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Horror | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
Who Among Us? by Mario Benedetti
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
They met when they were teenagers. Quiet, poor, perhaps even a little dull, Miguel fell for languid Alicia during their long walks back from school. Then Lucas arrived and changed everything, entrancing Alicia with his confident bohemian charm. Miguel could not compete. But he stuck around and, against ...Show more
Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
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Category: Memoir & Biography | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more t ...Show more
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
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Category: Gender Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suf ...Show more
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Self Care | Series: Rider Classics Ser.
A beautiful collectable gift edition celebrating the 30 year anniversary of the ultimate cult feminist classic Within every woman, there lies a powerful force of energy, creativity and self-knowing: their wild woman. For centuries, she has been repressed by a male-orientated value system that trivialise ...Show more
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Peter William Evans
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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Pedro Almodovar's 1988 black comedy-melodrama Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown established its director as one of the most exciting of European film-making talents. An often hilarious study of sexual mores, Women on the Verge has a central character, Pepa (Carmen Maura), as warm and richly draw ...Show more
Wonderful Adventures Of Nils, The by Lagerlof Selma
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Category: No Category | Series: Dover Children's Classics Ser.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909 -- the first woman to be so honored -- Swedish novelist Selma Lagerl f (1858-1940) was a gifted storyteller whose writings were often tinged with the supernatural and rooted in the sagas and legends of her homeland.She secured her reputation as a children ...Show more