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Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexiévich; Andrew Bromfield (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The haunting history of the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015- A new translation based on the updated and expanded text -From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet ...Show more
Brecht Collected Plays: 5 by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Education | Series: Methuen World Classics Ser.
This fifth volume in the Collected Plays series brings together two of Brecht's plays, "The Life of Galileo" and "Mother Courage and her Children". "Galileo" examines the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology, through the story of the great astronomer and his persecution by the Inquisition ...Show more
Bright Star The Complete Poems and Selected Letters (Vintage Classics) by John Keats
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This book includes an introduction by director Jane Campion. John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 26. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his l ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Brothers Grimm: 101 Fairy Tales (Keepsake PB Edition) by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
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Category: Classics | Series: Crafted Classics Ser.
Classic fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm with a creatively embroidered cover. This creatively designed edition of Brothers Grimm: 101 Fairy Tales includes cherished favorites such as "Sleeping Beauty," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Little Red Cap," and many more in their original versions. These are the st ...Show more
Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales (Bath Treasury) by Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Bath Classics Ser.
Stories in this collection include: 'The Frog Prince', 'Hansel and Gretel', 'Tom Thumb', 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Sleeping Beauty' and 'The Goose Girl'.
Burmese Days by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, "Burmese Days" describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orth ...Show more
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout o ...Show more
Call for the Dead by John le Carré
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Category: Accessories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. John le Carr 's latest novel, A Legacy of Spies, is now available. "Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on you ...Show more
Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire (FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguins Classics Ser.
Theo Cuffe's marvelous translation of Voltaire's satirical masterpiece. With its vibrant new translation and perceptive introduction this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945 this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.
Capital: Volume I by Karl Marx
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
One of the most influential political and philosophical texts ever writtenOne of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work was la ...Show more