Remembrance of Things Past (#2) by Marcel Proust
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: World Literature S.
Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Stephen Hudson Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth ce ...Show more
The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics
"The Queen's Nicklace" dramatizes an unsavory incident in the 1780s at the court of King Louis XVI of France involving the King'swife, Marie Antoinette. Her reputation was already tarnished by gossip and scandal, and her implication in a crime involving a stolen necklace became one of the major turning- ...Show more
The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1940, the author sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. This book offers a log of the expedition, combining combines science, philosophy and adventure.
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
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Category: Classics | Series: Pan 70th Anniversary Ser.
The inspiration for the Syfy miniseries. Childhood's End is one of the defining legacies of Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and many other groundbreaking works. Since its publication in 1953, this prescient novel about first contact gone wrong has come to be regarded not only a ...Show more
Snow Falling on Cedars: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by David Guterson
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Category: Classics
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The Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing . . . 'Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of unease.
Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? (Mini Modern Classics) by Hans Fallada
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
It was what we call in the trade a potato . . . 'Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.
Leaving the Yellow House (Mini Modern Classics) by Saul Bellow
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an elderly and self-destructive dipsomaniac in a Western desert town, who finds herself faced with a final, impos ...Show more
The Problem that Has No Name (Mini Modern Classics) by Betty Friedan
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women'The pioneering Betty Friedan here identifies the strange problem plaguing American housewives, and explains the malignant role advertising plays in perpetuating the myth of the 'happy housewife heroine'.
The Spire by William Golding
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Category: Classics
Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. Tolstoy's epic masterpiece captures with unprecedented immediacy the broad sweep of life during the Napoleonic wars and the brutal invasion of Russia. Ball ...Show more
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics
The Invisible Man stands out as possessing one of the most complicated heroes, or perhaps anti-heroes, in literature. Griffin is not a naïve dreamer such as Moreau’s Pendick or a hapless victim of circumstances like the unnamed narrator of The War of the Worlds. He is a man of great genius and great fau ...Show more