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The Sleeping Beauty by Elizabeth Taylor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A subtle love story by one of the most accomplished writers of the 20th century.
The Soul Of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
' "Here I am!" Flora called to Richard as she went downstairs. For a second, Meg felt disloyalty. It occurred to her of a sudden that Flora was always saying that, and that it was in the tone of one giving a lovely present. She was bestowing herself.' The soul of kindness is what Flora believes herself ...Show more
The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair. Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife of distinguished barrister Evelyn Gresham, is facing the greatest challenge of her married life. Their neighbour Blanche Silcox, competent, middle-aged and ungainly - the very op ...Show more
The Transit Of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparent ...Show more
The Vet's Daughter: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns; Jane Gardam (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife's death, the vet takes u ...Show more
The Wedding Group by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'You know,' Midge began, and paused. She was rather taken aback, and could not at once think of anything to say. 'Perhaps there's nothing so dangerous as having led a sheltered life.'Cressy has grown up in a world of women, presided over by her eccentric, artistic grandfather Harry Bretton. Rebelling ag ...Show more
The Women's Room by Marilyn French
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics
A landmark in feminist literature, THE WOMEN'S ROOM is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with profound resonance today, this is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted blindly and revered so completely. Today's de ...Show more
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Gilman, is a highly celebrated and academic description of one of the most friendly doers on the planet. This work is considered an important morning task in feminist literature and one that explored questions about the beauty of the lady, both physical and mental. It ...Show more
The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Maggie O'Farrell (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches . . . The colour is repellent . . . In the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about . . .' Based on the author's own experiences, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' ...Show more
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Refusing to compromise in spite of society's expectations, Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a ...Show more