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Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
$19.54 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf's own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary ancestors: in Katherine's case, her poet grandfather, and in Woolf's, her father Leslie Stephen, writer, philosopher, and editor. Both desire to break away from the ...Show more
Nuns and Soldiers by Iris Murdoch
$21.90 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: near fine
Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Tim is a different sort of soldier. He plans to live off rich friends. Who will judge whom in this story?
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
$27.40 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly r ...Show more
Patrick White: A life by David Marr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster ...' Patrick White Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogra ...Show more
Point Counter Point (PB) by Aldous Huxley
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy who devours every man in sight; the repulsive Spandrell deflowers youn ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Austen Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Pride and PrejudiceBy Jane AustenElizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: ...Show more
Snapshots:mothers & Daughters by Joyce Carol Oates
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
A collection of stories that explore the chemistry between mothers and daughters. Contributors include: Isabel Allende; Margaret Atwood; Jamaica Kincaid; Alice Walker; Edna O'Brien; and many more.
Something Special by Iris Murdoch
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Something Special was previously unpublished except in a 1950s anthology and in Japan, and rediscovered after her death. It is the only short story that Iris Murdoch ever wrote for publication. Set in Dublin, against the vividly recognisable backdrop of the writer's native city in the late fifties, Some ...Show more
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Set in Brooklyn in 1947, this is the story of Sophie, a Polish Catholic immigrant who is haunted by her memories of the concentration camp in wartime Europe, and the terrible choice she was forced to make.
The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In Kingsley Amis's virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart's sec ...Show more
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
First published in 1958, Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty. Encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns, is a community of very mixed-up people waiting for the installation of a new bell, ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernising Russia. This acclaimed new Englis ...Show more