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The Women in Black: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
$12.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A classic novel by a superb observer of contemporary manners, The Women in Black illuminates on every page the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. It's Sydney in the late 1950s, and the Ladies' Cocktail Frocks department of the famous F.G. Goode department store is bracing itself for the Christmas rus ...Show more
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / The Marvelous Land of Oz: (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) by L. Frank Baum
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classics Ser.
Age range 9 to 12 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / The Marvelous Land of Oz brings together the first two novels of L. Frank Baum's classic Oz series. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Marvelous Land of Oz , Tip, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Saw-Horse, and the Woggle-Bug work to save the Scarecrow's besieged city. ...Show more
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
$39.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
On her journey to the Emerald City to seek out the mysterious Wizard and find a way back home, Dorothy encounters many endearing characters of whom the triumvirate of the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion prove lasting comrades. With 70 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. The tale of ...Show more
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon ; Jean-Paul Sartre (Preface by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autob ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | 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. A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty John Gregory Dunne and Joan ...Show more
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
$19.99 AUD
Category: General 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 Zone by Sergei Dovlatov
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Ser.
Based on Dovlatov's actual experience of being a prison guard in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, and full of comic and humane detail, The Zone depicts the absurd day-to- day life of a camp in an insightful and unusual way, challenging commonly held perceptions of the relations between incarcerators and the ...Show more
Thelma and Louise by Marita Sturken
$24.99 AUD
Category: Film/TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Thelma & Louise, directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, sparked a remarkable public discussion about feminism, violence, and the representation of women in cinema on its release in 1991. Subject to media vilification for its apparent justification of armed robbery and manslaughter, i ...Show more
They're a Weird Mob: Text Classics by Nino Culotta
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Just off the boat from Italy, Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he's never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking. They're a Weird Mobis an hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience in Menzies-era Australia, by a writer with a brilliant ear fo ...Show more
Three Cheers For The Paraclete by Tom Keneally
$12.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Winner of the 1968 Miles Franklin Award From the moment he allows his young cousin and bride to spend the night in his room, Father Maitland causes raised eyebrows and dark mutterings amongst the brothers at St Peter's. Time and again his efforts to do the right thing for his fellow men lead him into co ...Show more
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
$14.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This revelatory new translation by strips Thus Spoke Zarathustra down to its foundations in Gothic horror, and discovers a much darker book than previously understood. Not content to focus erringly on God is dead, this new translation sings a dithyramb to the earth at the same time as it mercilessly hun ...Show more
Time without Clocks: Text Classics by Joan Lindsay
$12.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Time Without Clocks is a 1962 autobiographical novel by Joan Lindsay that recounts Lindsay's early years married to prolific Australian artist Daryl Lindsay.