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A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knavewas published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and ...Show more
A Little Princess (HB) by BURNETT FRANCES HODGSON
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Award Essential Classics Ser.
• Quality hardback editions • Enduring classic stories • Complete and unabridged • A story to enchant every reader • Highly collectable series of 24 titles • Foiled covers
A Man for All Seasons (Playscript) by Robert Bolt
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Modern Classics
A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's eloquence and endurance, his purity, saintliness and tenac ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Its l ...Show more
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love, or pity, and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fab ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more
A Place Of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
An extraordinary work of historical imagination - this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up the 4th Estate Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titl ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by James Joyce; Judith John (Contribution by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce This coming of age story charts the growth of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter-ego of the novelist, James Joyce. As Dedalus grows, so too does the language and the reader is carried from the family home in the suburbs to college to life as a youn ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" portrays Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, providing an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Ex ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
$5.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
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A Pure Clear Light: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
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Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Simon and Flora Beaufort have three perfect children and a comfortable, happy life in London. When Flora takes the children for a month-long vacation in France, Simon stays home to work on his latest film project...what could go wrong? A Pure Clear Lightexamines a marriage at the moment it goes hapless ...Show more
A Room of One's Own & The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
A Room of One’s Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf’s best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society.The essay lays bare the woman artist’s struggle for ...Show more