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The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$23.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Hana, the Canadian nurse exhausted by death and grieving for her own dead father; Caravaggio, the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upsta ...Show more
The Epic of Gilgamesh by N K Sandars, N. K. Sandars
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literatureMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells ...Show more
The Erotic Poems by Ovid
$15.35 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the "Amores", Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The intimate a ...Show more
The Essays by Francis Bacon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman, he wrote widely on politics, philosophy and science - declaring early in his career that 'I ...Show more
The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and taunting voices. Convinced that her housekeeper and husband are plotting against her, she descends into a terrifying world of sickness, pills and institutionalization. ...Show more
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gender | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Available in audio for the first time since its publication in 1970, and narrated by the author, Germaine Greer. A worldwide best seller, The Female Eunuch is a landmark book in the history of the women's movement and a ground-breaking feminist tract. Drawing from history, literature, and popular cultu ...Show more
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, James Baldwin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time st ...Show more
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony: Text Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
$14.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Richard Mahony is a restless man. Ballarat, England, Melbourne, Europe, the bush: elsewhere is always better. Searching for a place, a meaning, a life, Mahony and his wife Mary journey from wealth to poverty, order to chaos, sanity to the asylum. The Fortunes of Richard Mahonyis a towering novel. This ...Show more
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powe ...Show more
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$24.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Arcturus Paperback Classics Ser.
The novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, including the classic Crime and Punishment, secured the great Russian writer an exalted position in the literary pantheon of 20th-century authors. The Gambler stands as one of the literary genius' most highly regarded shorter works. At the casino in Roulettenburg, German ...Show more
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s.More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, ...Show more
The Golden Notebook (Collins Modern Classics) by Doris Lessing
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young ch ...Show more