Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics
A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomt ...Show more
Youth: WITH The Heart of Darkness: AND The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics
Conrad's aim was 'by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel ...before all, to make you see'. "Heart of Darkness", his exploration of European colonialism in Africa and of elusive human values, embodies more profoundly than almost any other modern fiction the difficulty of 'see ...Show more
Beowulf: A Verse Translation by Michael Alexander (Translator, Introduction by); Penguin Group (UK) Staff
$12.95 AUD
$17.99 (28% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Epic poetry, English (Old); Monsters/ Poetry; Dragons/ Poetry; Dragons; Monsters; Scandinavia; Poetry / Anci ...Show more
Notes from Underground and Grand Inquisition by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics
The Physiology of Taste by Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin; Anne Drayton (Introduction by, Foreword by, Translator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Food | Series: Classics Ser.
Brillat-Savarin's unique, exuberant collection of dishes, experiences, reflections, history and philosophy raised gastronomy to an art form. First published in France in 1825, this remarkable book reflected a new era in French cuisine- the advent of the restaurant, which gave the bourgeoisie the opportu ...Show more
The Confidence-man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville
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Category: Classics
Onboard the Fidele, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous guises - from a legless beggar and a worldly businessman to a collector for charitable causes and a cosmopolitan' gentleman, w ...Show more
Le Rochefoucauld - Maxims by Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Philosophy
The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
This volume includes "Family Happiness"; "The Kreutzer Sonata"; "The Devil" and "Father Sergius". The four stories are all about love, but they take very different attitudes towards it. Tolstoy knows that his readers have fallen in love and also, often, fallen out of it; they have wanted to kill their l ...Show more
Lives Of The Artists (Volume I) by Giorgio Vasari
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Category: Classics | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first dra ...Show more
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In January, 1850, Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in "The House of the Dead", were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account, he recounts his soul-destroying incarcerat ...Show more
Lives of the Artists (Volume II) by Giorgio Vasari
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In his "Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance", Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio Roman ...Show more
First Love by Ivan Turgenev
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Category: Classics
When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida. But the capricious young woman already has many admirers and as she plays her suitors against each othe ...Show more