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The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition by Richard Dawkins
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Oxford Landmark Science Ser.
The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view gi ...Show more
The Swann Way by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...' The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an introduction to its unforgettable ...Show more
The Taming of the Shrew (Oxford School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. The Taming of the Shrew is a popular text for study by secondary students the ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I, who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of the ordinary, catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon.' Intensely visionary yet absorbed with the everyday; experimental, daring and challenging, The Waves is regarded by many as Virginia Woolf's greatest achievement. It follows a s ...Show more
Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'Sullivan
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Category: Essays | Series: Oxford Paperbacks
In tellng the story of his youth, Maurice O'Sullivan uses a style derived from the folk tales he learned from his grandfather, and sharpened by his own lively imagination. Though he wrote simply for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends--without any thought of a wider audience--O'Sul ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Each episode has its ...Show more
Vathek by William Beckford
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant; and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!' The Caliph Vathek is dissolute and debauched, and hungry for knowledge. When the mysterious Giaour offers him boundless treasure and unrivalled power he is willing to sac ...Show more
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of thi ...Show more
Women of Abstract Expressionism by Gwen F. Chanzit
$138.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: The\Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lec Ser.
The artists Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and many other women played major roles in the development of Abstract Expressionism, which flourished in New York and San Francisco in the 1940s and 1950s and has been recognized as the first full ...Show more