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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
Vintage Classics: Pack My Bag by Henry Green
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage classics
Green chronicles his early life, providing an incisive portrait of English society and of the man himself. From reminiscences of a childhood spent among the gentry, to searing descriptions of Eton and Oxford, to reflections on his first experiments with prose and sex.
Vintage Classics: The Secret History Of The Lord Of Musashi by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Two short novels, published initially in the 1930s. "Musashi" deals with the dark obsessions of a 16th-century warlord. "Arrowroot" also touches on the pursuit of legend, but in a different mode, that of the uniquely Japanese form of the "essay" novel.
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
$22.99 AUD
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
Way of Zen by Alan Watts
$26.99 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Vintage Spiritual Classics Ser.
In his definitive introduction to Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts explains the principles and practices of this ancient religion to Western readers. With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, he delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today with incredible clar ...Show more
We of the Never-Never by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage Classics
In 1902, newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left the security and comfort of her Melbourne home to travel to the depths of the Northern Territory, where her husband had been appointed manager of The Elsey, a large cattle station. One of the very few white women in the area, she was at first re ...Show more
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: very good
Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.
Whose Body? - A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery by Dorothy L. Sayers
$21.50 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
When a dead body, carefully arranged and naked except for a pince-nez, is discovered in a bathtub, amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, deducing the man is not who he appears to be, takes it upon himself to solve the mystery, leading to an array of twists and turns that make Whose Body a masterful, intrica ...Show more
William Blake: Poems (Vintage Classics) by William Blake; Patti Smith (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"William Blake is one of Britain s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source o ...Show more
Wise Children by Angela Carter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards and chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy newnovel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identitiesas any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This book comes with an introduction by Howard Jacobson. "Women in Love" begins one blossoming spring day in England and ends with a terrible catastrophe in the snow of the Alps. Ursula and Gudrun are very different sisters who become entangled with two friends, Rupert and Gerald, who live in their home ...Show more
Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel & Daisetz T. Suzuki (intro.)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Vintage Spiritual Classics Ser.
The book sets forth theories about motor learning and control that provide lessons for learning any sport or physical activity. For example, a central idea in the book is that through years of practice, a physical activity becomes effortless both mentally and physically, as if the body executes complex ...Show more