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By the Lake by John McGahern
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
With this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces its natural rhythms and the inner lives of its people. Here are the Ruttledges, who have forsaken the glit ...Show more
Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created controversy in its analysis of 'modern' society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.
Democracy by Joan Didion
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean--a gorgeously written, bitterly funny look at the relationship between politics and personal life. Moving deftly between romance, farce, and tragedy, from 1970s America to Vietnam to Jakarta, D ...Show more
Everyman by Philip Roth
$19.06 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"Philip Roth's twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, Everyman, is intended to be the personification of mankind. The fate of Roth's Everyman is traced from his first sho ...Show more
Generations of Winter by Aksyonov
$42.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Written in the great tradition of epic Russian fiction, Generations of Winter is a magnificent saga that captures one of the most fascinating chapters in modern history - the Soviet Union in the years 1925 to 1945. Breathtaking in its scope, masterful in its command of historical events and its understa ...Show more
Literature and the Gods by CALASSO, ROBERT
$26.00 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso's lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of the ...Show more
The Hamlet by William Faulkner
$24.10 AUD
$25.95 (7% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This darkly comic masterpiece is the first novel of the trilogy about the Snopes family, the grasping clan that comes to dominate the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi after the fall of the Confederacy.
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection features 61 stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation.""Profound and daring . . . some of the most wonderful stories any American has written."--"The Boston Globe."
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