Poems from the Pond - 107 Years of Words and Wisdom: the Writings of Peggy Freydberg by Laurie David; Peggy Freydberg
$59.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Peggy Freydberg is proof positive that creativity has no age limit! Just when most people are winding way down, Peggy began writing a lifetime's worth of poems at age 90! Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks describes Peggy's poetry as having a "stunning intensity and searing emotional impact. ...Show more
Selected Works of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Special Editions
Contains: A Room of One's Own * To the Lighthouse * Between the Acts * Three Guineas * Mrs Dalloway * Jacob's Room * The Waves * The Years * Orlando Mrs Dalloway, the society hostess Clarissa, is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives ...Show more
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (Leather Bound) by Howard Pyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics
This title is suitable for children aged 10 to 13 years old. This imaginative retelling of the classic Arthurian legends recounts the story of Arthur's formation of the Knights of the Round Table, his securing of the enchanted sword Excalibur and his wooing of the Lady Guinevere. Included as well are th ...Show more
The Crowd - A Study of the Popular Mind (Classic Reprint) by Gustave Le Bon
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Category: Classics
Excerpt from The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind Organised crowds have always played an impor tant part in the life of peoples, but this part has never been Of such moment as at present. The substitution of the unconscious action of crowds for the conscious activity Of individuals is one of the princ ...Show more
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Henry James, a master of haunting atmosphere and riveting tension, presents one of the most famous ghost stories of all time. A young governess is sent to a country home to take charge of two orphans, and unsettled by a sense of intense evil within the house, becomes obsessed with the belief that malevo ...Show more
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics
An epic human drama by John Steinbeck, one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, "The Grapes of Wrath" depicts the devastating effects of the Great Depression, and won both the American National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. 'To the red country and part of the gray country of O ...Show more
The Aunt's Story by Patrick White
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Category: Classics
From Australia's first Nobel Prize-winning author. With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But creating ...Show more
A Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Classics
Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun. The figure of Galileo, whose ‘heretical' discoveries about the solar system brought him to the attention of the Inquisition ...Show more
The Constitution of the United States of America: And Selected Writings of the Founding Fathers (leather bound) by Various Authors
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics
This leatherbound collection of classic works traces the founding of America, from the birth of the nation in the late 1760s to the creation of a more perfect union at the end of the early 1800s. It celebrates the pursuit of life, liberty and justice and the freedoms that define America through notable ...Show more