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Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier; Sarah Perry (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. Fo ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For ...Show more
Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Horace Rumpole, the old boy committed to defending the apparently indefensible, trusting of a jury, scornful of the law's pomposities, appears here in a new edition of the 1978 iconic Rumpole debut.This volume collects the much-loved stories 'Rumpole and the Younger Generation', 'Rumpole and the Alterna ...Show more
Shallows by Tim Winton
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Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
No.1 Australian Bestseller.Author Published Internationally. Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passinig defines the rythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begin ...Show more
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene by Adonis
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Written in the early 1960s by Adonis, 'the most eloquent spokesman and explorer of Arabic modernity' (Edward Said), Songs of Mihyar the Damascene is widely considered to be the apex of the modernist poetry movement in the Arab world, and a radical departure from the rigid formal structures that had domi ...Show more
Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of "War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, " and "Anna Karenina, " which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to "The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, " a collection of thirty of Chekhov' ...Show more
Story of a Secret State - My Report to the World by Jan Karski
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Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoys a life of parties and pleasure. Then war breaks out and his familiar world is destroyed. Now he must live under a new identity, in the resistance. And, in a secret mission that could change the course of the war, he must risk his own life ...Show more
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
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Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more
The Arabian Nights by Richard F. Burton (Translator); A. S. Byatt (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad alway ...Show more
The Bay Of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place. Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama waits her there. She has an introduction to a Neapolitan woman, and one ...Show more
The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This was New York . . . the marvelous secret things people did inside those tall buildings at the cocktail hour were the things he did every evening, and tonight it was all going to happen to her.' New York, 1952. Four young women have come to the city: to find love, to build their careers and to savou ...Show more
The Bolivian Diary by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967 Che Guevara left Cuba to lead the Bolivian Liberation Army. In the jungles of Bolivia they attempted to initiate a revolution like that in Cuba, in which Che had played such a central role. The opposing Bolivian Army was backed by the CIA, and Che and his men fought bravely in the jungle of Boli ...Show more