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The Source of Self-Regard - Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
$30.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades. These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulo ...Show more
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection features 61 stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation.""Profound and daring . . . some of the most wonderful stories any American has written."--"The Boston Globe."
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
$34.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Vintage International
Here, for the first time, the stories of one of the century's greatest prose stylists are collected in a single, comprehensive volume. Written from the early 1920s - the years of his exile from Russia - to the mid-1950s, when he abandoned the story form and turned to his English-language masterpieces Lo ...Show more
Town by Faulkner, William
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South. Like its predecessor, The Hamlet, and its successor, The Mansion, The Town is completely self-contained, but it gains resonance from being read with the oth ...Show more
Washington, D.C: A Novel by Gore Vidal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
With a New Introduction Washington, D.C., is the final installment in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire, his acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. It offers an illuminating portrait of our republic from the time of the New Deal to the McCar-thy era. Widely regarded as ...Show more
World Light by Halldór Kiljan Laxness; Magnus Magnusson (Translator); Sven Birkerts (Introduction by)
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
As an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation- the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are ...Show more