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A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of wome ...Show more
A Room with a View: Penguin Classics by E M Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentin ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing extravagant outfits and playing dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids committment, gripped by the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake.
A Stairway to Paradise: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Alex and Andrew are friends. And Barbara...Barbara is a goddess. Here is the eternal triangle, the story of three people in an unhappy tangle of emotions, none able to articulate the precise quality of their longing and dissatisfaction.Are any of them truly interested in reaching the 'paradise' they cla ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series | Reading Level: very good
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics Ser.
Explore Dickens' classic tale of order and disorder, death and resurrection with A Tale of Two Cities. Taking place in London and Paris in the eighteenth century, in the years leading up to and during the French Revolution, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities is one of injustice, revenge, rebirth, lo ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics/Collections | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Series
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes' fortunes become inextricably intertwined with those of two men, the heroic aristocra ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Before the concept of equality between the sexes was even conceived, Wollstonecraft wrote this book, a treatise of proto-feminism that was as powerful and original then as it is now. In it she argues with clarity and originality for the rational education of women and for an increased female contributio ...Show more
A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter; Jane Degras (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
A rediscovered classic memoir - the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husb ...Show more
Absolute Friends by John le Carré
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Category: Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947 in a newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West.The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties an ...Show more
Adventure Word Cloud Boxed Set (Peter Pan, Jungle Book, Treasure Island, Call of the Wild) by Editors of Canterbury Classics
$99.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Jump into thrilling adventures with this Word Cloud Boxed Set There are so many adventures to choose from in this exclusively selected boxed set Four special-edition Word Cloud Classics are included: Call of the Wild and Other Stories, The Jungle Book, Peter Pan, and Treasure Island. Readers will b ...Show more
Aesop's Fables Illustrated (Leatherbound Classics) by Aesop
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
This illustrated collection includes hundreds of fables that have influenced our world for centuries.The stories attributed to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in Greece around 620-564 BCE, were originally passed on through oral tradition before first being transcribed several centuries after hi ...Show more