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A Glass Of Blessings by Barbara Pym
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLARE CHAMBERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'The subtlest of her books . . . the sparkle on first acquaintance has been succeeded by the deeper brilliance of established art' PHILIP LARKINWilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, go ...Show more
A History of My Times by Xenophon
$18.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of the Peloponnesian War at the point where Thucydides finished his magisterial history, this is a fascinating chronicle of the conflicts that ultimately led to the decline of Greec ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictiona ...Show more
A Kindness Cup: Text Classics by Thea Astley
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"A writer of astonishing gifts." --Publishers Weekly "Smart, compassionate." --New York Times Text Classics presents four key works from Thea Astley, including two never previously released in the United States. Two decades after a massacre of local Aboriginal people, the former residents of a Queens ...Show more
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
On the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In A Legacy, Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds - the wealthy bourgeois life of the Merzes in Berlin and the aristocratic eccentricity of the von Felden dynasty in rural ...Show more
A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography by Evelyn Waugh
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves, contributed to his genius. Save for a few pale shadows, hi ...Show more
A Little Tea, A Little Chat (Text Classics) by Christina Stead
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
" Ever since his early manhood, since his marriage, he had bought women; most had been bargains and most had made delivery at once. He never paid in advance: I got no time for futures in women'. New York, on the cusp of World War II. Robert Grant, a middle-aged businessman, lives life by his own rules. ...Show more
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr, J.L. Carr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Penelope Fitzgerald - Introduction Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 112 pages | ISBN 014118230X | May 2000 A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beau ...Show more
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
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Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love, or pity, and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fab ...Show more
A Mother's Disgrace by Robert Dessaix
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Category: Biography | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
The frank and intimate journey of self-discovery by author, critic and arts commentator Robert Dessaix. Confronting, revealing and candid, the book traces his life from adoption towards the end of World War II, to a most unusual childhood on Sydney's North Shore, to his fascination with Russia and his t ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more
A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
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Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
George Smiley was simply doing a favor for Miss Ailsa Brimley, an old friend and editor of a small newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried reader: "I'm not mad. And I know my husband is trying to kill me." But the letter had arrived too late: its scribe, the wife of an assistant mas ...Show more