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Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This is the story of German composer, Adrian Leverkuhn. Zeitblom, the narrator, tells his friend''s story against the backdrop of WW2, which acts as a counterpoint to Mann''s vast theme, the discord between genius and sanity'
G: a Novel by John Berger
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Born to an Italian father and his American mistress, G. becomes, in the years before the First World War, a modern Don Juan.
Julian by VIDAL Gore
$38.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels. Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the his ...Show more
Knight's Gambit - The Restored Edition by William Faulkner
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Attorney Gavin Stevens, a wise and forbearing student of crime and a recurring character in William Faulkner's novels, plays the leading role in these six stories of violence. A man more interested in justice than in the Jaw. Stevens deploys his ingenious detective skills and his insight? into the folkw ...Show more
Mans Fate by Andre Malraux
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
One of the recognized masterpieces of the 20th century, this novel about the Chinese revolution and Chou En-lai is also a political document of enduring significance.
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A Sultan secretly commissions a cadre of artists to create a great book. But any work of art--an affront to Islam--is dangerous. "My Name Is Red" is a murder mystery played amidst the perils of religious repression. A "New York Times" Notable Book.
Naomi by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation's cultural confusion. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to tra ...Show more
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Satre
$32.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between the ...Show more
Once in Europa by Berger, J.
$33.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a luminous collection of interwoven stories, Once in Europa is a portrait of two worlds--a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it--at their moment of collision. The instrument of ...Show more
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets fort ...Show more
Palimpsest - A Memoir by Gore Vidal
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Vidal on Vidal--a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subject.A New York Times best American memoir"In the hands of Gore Vidal, a pen is a sword. And he points it at the high and mighty who have crossed his path." --Los Angeles Times Palimpsest is Gore Vidal's a ...Show more
Pig Earth by Berger
$35.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A fictional exposition and exploration of the crumbling foundation of traditional French peasant society and the uncomfortable implications of deracination in modern life.