A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
$33.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have wealth, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal bor ...Show more
Mr Ma and Son by Lao She
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Category: Classics
Mr Ma and his son Ma Wei run an antiques shop nestled in a quiet street by St Paul's Cathedral in London, where, far from their native Peking, they struggle to navigate the bustling pavements and myriad social conventions of 1920s English society. The Mas must negotiate love, money, misunderstandings an ...Show more
Scoop (HB) by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics
The best satire of journalism ever written, now in a wonderful new hardback editionLord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of The Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a mome ...Show more
Decline and Fall (HB) by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics
Evelyn Waugh's hilarious debut novel, now in a wonderful new hardback editionSent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools ...Show more
A - A Novel by Andy Warhol
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Category: Classics
Part novel, part Pop artwork, Andy Warhol's a is an electrifying slice of life at his Factory studio'A work of genius' NewsweekIn the early 1960s, Andy Warhol set out to turn the novel into pop art. a, the first book he wrote, is the result. Transcribed from audiotapes recorded in and around his legenda ...Show more
Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics
Evelyn Waugh's masterful depiction of World War II, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Martin StannardWaugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Hal ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Popular Penguins by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
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
Coromandel Sea Change by Rumer Godden
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Category: Classics
From Rumer Godden, the acclaimed author of Black Narcissus returns again to her beloved India with a novel brimming with heart, wit, unforgettable characters, and 'a sense of timelessness reminiscent of E. M. Forster' (The Times).Hotel owner Auntie Sanni has entertained all manner of guests during her m ...Show more
Mrs. Dalloway: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Woolf Virginia
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, featuring a new foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. It's one ...Show more
The Karamazov Brothers (PB) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Ignat Avsey (Edited and translated by
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyos ...Show more
Richard III by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics
A history play whose villainous usurper is one of William Shakespeare's most memorably cunning and sinister characters, Richard III is edited by E.A.J. Honigmann with an introduction by Michael Taylor in Penguin Shakespeare. 'Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York' ...Show more
Pale Horse, Pale Rider The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A collection that gathers together Pulitzer Prize-winning short fiction, including "Pale Horse, Pale Rider", where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her fiance on his way to war, and "Noon Wine", a haunting story of tragedy and sc ...Show more