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The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner; Philip Hensher (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In memory of the wife who had once dishonored and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey to the ...Show more
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield; Jilly Cooper (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield
The Fran Lebowitz Reader (PB) by Fran Lebowitz
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Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS'She's inexhaustible ...Show more
The Group by Mary McCarthy
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost continually brilliant' COSMOPOLITAN'A brilliant novel: honest, engaging and sharp as a tack' SARAH WATERS'Lively, vivid and exceedingly entertaining' SUNDAY TIMESThis groundbreaking novel celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2023. One of the first novels to frankly depi ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities. Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepte ...Show more
The Sleeping Beauty by Elizabeth Taylor
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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 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 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