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The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the Western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a sh ...Show more
The Years (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL, The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and ...Show more
To The Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel's opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever. But time passes, bri ...Show more
Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Greene's fine sense of humor is displayed in this warm and far-reaching comic novel, Travels with My Aunt, a bestseller when it appeared originally. At his mother's funeral, Henry Pulling, a stuffy, retired bank manager with an interest in dahlias, meets his Aunt Augusta. The indomitable Aunt Augusta p ...Show more
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
$17.98 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! When young Jim Hawkins discovers a map showing the way to Captain Flint's treasure, he and Squire Trelawney set sail on the Hispaniola to search for the gold. Little do they know that among their crew is the dastardly pirate Long John Si ...Show more
Treasure Island (Vintage Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This book contains an Introduction by Jake Arnott. When young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map in a pirate's chest in his parents' inn, he is drawn into a world of danger and adventure. He joins the crew setting sail to the Caribbean to seek out the booty and over the course of the voyage confront ...Show more
Twenty-one Stories by Graham Greene
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The stories in this text, all written between 1929 and 1954, share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels: humour and violence, pity and hatred, betrayal and pursuit. They recount tales of indiscretions revealed and secrets uncovered.
Under The Net: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch; Kiernan Ryan (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. 'This is real life, Jake,' she said. 'You'd ...Show more
Vanity Fair (Vintage Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
$16.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends with the lovely Amelia Sedley at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. She may not have the natural advantages of her companion but she more than makes up for it with her wit, charm, deviousness and determination to make a success of herself ...Show more
Vera by Elizabeth Von Arnim
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is Wemyss's 'sweet girl', and to Lucy, Everard is the whole world. The only blot on Lucy's happiness is the shadowy figure of Wemyss's first wife, Vera, who died in mysterious circum ...Show more
Vintage Classics: Liza Of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham
$14.99 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldy, new to the area, and married. Soon the streets are wise to their passionate affair and Liza' ...Show more
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Henry David Thoreau s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts part social experiment, part spiritual quest is an enduringly influential American classic. In 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The inspiring and lyric ...Show more