Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard; Alastair Hannay (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
The Dreamers by Jack Davis
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Category: Classics | Series: PLAYS
This is a story of a country town family and old Uncle Worru, who, in his dying days, recedes from urban hopelessness to the life and language of the Nyoongah spirit which in him has survived 'civilisation' (2 acts, 5 men, 2 boys, 1 woman, 1 girl, 1 male dancer).
The Getting of Wisdom: Text Classics by Henry Handel Richardson, Germaine Greer
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson ease do, Wondrous Fair Tell what happened next," begged Pin and Leppie. "No, not another word. You can only think of sheets and parrakeets." "Please, Wondrous Fair," begged little Frank. "No, I can't now.--Another thing: I don't mind if you call me Laura ...Show more
The Secret Life of Books by Tom Mole
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Category: Classics
We love books. We take them to bed with us. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on holiday. We display them on our bookshelves or store them in our attics. We give them as gifts. We write our names in them. We take them for granted. And all the time, our books are leading a double life. Books are f ...Show more
Jane Austen by Janet Todd
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Category: Classics | Series: Y Ser.
Jane Austen traces the author's life and times, her personal relationships, the attitudes and customs of the time that shaped her and were in turn shaped by her work, and the places where she lived, worked and set her novels, from rural Hampshire to fashionable Bath Spa.Chapters on each of her novels ru ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's masterpieceThe authoritative Hans Walter Gabler text; With a new introduction by Anne EnrightSet entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this starting point, James Joyce c ...Show more
Maurice by E.M. Forster
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Cli ...Show more
Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"The title refers to an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. This game involves all branches of knowledge, and spiritual values - especially those of the east. Hesse's longing to find a dynamic fusion of mind with nature is set forth more pene ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Austen Ser.
Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, the epitome of sense, desires a man who is promised to another woman. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the epitome of sensibili ...Show more
Edgar Allan Poe - Illustrated Tales by Edgar Allen Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions Ser.
Sprung from the shadowed recesses of Edgar Allan Poe’s imagination, these nineteen tales of mystery and the macabre testify to the brilliance of their author’s dark artistry. Each story is colourfully illustrated by the classic artwork of Harry Clarke, in whom Poe found one of his most sensitive and sym ...Show more
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies d ...Show more
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
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Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal reoccurrence. To read Labyrinths is to glide through time, space, mythology and philosophy, as Borges' ch ...Show more