Tourmaline: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
$12.95 AUD
Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
There is no stretch of land on earth more ancient than this. And so it is blunt and red and barren, littered with the fragments of broken mountains, flat, waterless. Tourmaline, in outback Western Australia, is dying: its mines lie abandoned and drought has taken hold. When the enigmatic diviner Michael ...Show more
The Girl Green as Elderflower: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
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A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. "A Single Man "follows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hou ...Show more
Barchester Towers: Penguin English Library by Anthony Trollope
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics
'What! to come here a stranger, a young, unknown, and unfriended stranger, and tell us, in the name of the bishop his master, that we are ignorant of our duties, old-fashioned, and useless!' Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. ...Show more
Heart of Darkness and the Complete Congo Diary (Alma Classics) by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only the peri ...Show more
Death Comes For the Archbishop by Cather Willa
$26.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VMC
In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows - gently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly reb ...Show more
The Rebel - An Essay on Man in Revolt (US ed.) by Camus Albert
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Category: Classics | Series: AC
Camus' major essay on the nature and origins of rebellion demonstrates how revolution, by its very nature, inevitably leads to new tyranny. Translated by Anthony Bower.
Exile and the Kingdom -(Adulterous Wife, Renegade, Voiceless, Guest, Jonas & Growing Stone) by Albert Camus
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International
From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary b ...Show more
Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl
$28.00 AUD
Category: Classics
In this collection of stories, Dahl tantalizes, amuses, and sometimes terrifies readers into a sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. Included in this collection are such notorious gems of the bizarre as "The Second Machine," "Lamb to the Slaughter," "Neck," and "The Landlady." Other stories explore ...Show more
What We Talk about When We Talk About Love by R. Carver
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film "Birdman," Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and find ...Show more
Henry Lawson Selected Stories by Henry Lawson
$17.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
An essential collection of Henry Lawson's best-loved stories. Rogues, larrikins and the lost people - these timeless stories range from inspired, laconic comedies to pathos and tragedy. this selection showcases Lawson's range as a fiction writer and highlights his profound influence on how Australians ...Show more