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Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Contemporary classics | Reading Level: good
Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks, no strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal ...Show more
Carried Away: A Selection of Stories by Alice Munro
$39.95 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Carried Away" is a dazzling selection of stories-seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought ...Show more
Envy and Gratitude: And Other Works, 1946-1963 by Melanie Klein
$41.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Contemporary Classics Ser.
This text collects Melaine Klein's writings from 1946 until her death in 1960, including two papers published posthumously. This was her last major work which introduces her theory of primary envy.
Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Fiction | Series: Contemporary Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Jess' pick... (Fiction) Elizabeth, monstrous yet pitiable; Nate, her husband, a patchwork man, gentle, disillusioned; Lesje, a young woman at the natural history museum, for whom dinosaurs are as important as men. These are three people in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love.
The Bookshop / The Gate of Angels / The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
$36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Publisher's description: The Bookshop is a postwar tragicomedy of manners, set in an isolated seaside town where an enterprising woman opens a bookstore only to find it beset by poltergeists, weather, and hostile townsfolk. The Gate of Angels is an Edwardian romance within a novel of ideas: a young doct ...Show more
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom and Selected Essays by Albert Camus
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
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The Raj Quartet: The jewel in the crown by Paul Scott
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Secon ...Show more
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live : Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
$60.00 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem ...Show more
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