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Brave New World (Hardback) by Aldous Huxley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaini ...Show more
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
"FICTIONS is perhaps the single most mysterious and extraordinary collection of short stories written this century. Influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes, Borges is nethertheless a complete original who can turn dry logical puzzles in to enchanting fables. The Piec ...Show more
Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben
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Category: Animals/Natural History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Mother deer that grieve? Horses that feel shame? Squirrels that adopt their grandchildren? We humans tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings intensely and consciously. But have you ever wondered what's going on in an animal's head? More and more researchers are real ...Show more
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's library children's classics | Reading Level: 2+
Little Lord Fauntleroy is the engaging, amusing, and moving story of a boy living on the edge of poverty in New York, who suddenly learns that he is the heir to an English lord with vast lands and wealth. Travelling to his grandfather's castle, Cedric shows his trusting and democratic nature in his deal ...Show more
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: very good
As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same da ...Show more
Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of "War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, " and "Anna Karenina, " which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to "The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, " a collection of thirty of Chekhov' ...Show more
The Arabian Nights by Richard F. Burton (Translator); A. S. Byatt (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad alway ...Show more
The Leopard: With Two Stories and a Memory by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
A classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
The Susan Effect by Peter Hoeg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | Series: Everyman's Library Classics | Reading Level: very good
Susan Svendsen has a special talent: she has a unique ability to make people confide in her and tell her their innermost secrets. She has exploited that talent, and now has a prison sentence hanging over her head for punching a Bollywood actor in an Indian casino. To make matters worse, her husband is o ...Show more
The Water Kingdom by Philip Ball
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
A secret history of China - a fresh new way of thinking about a people, a civilisation, an epic story. The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the overwhelming complexity and teeming energy of the countr ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: good-very good
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes.At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly en ...Show more
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