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Memento Mori: A Virago Modern Classic by Muriel Spark
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, a group of aging eccentrics is brought together by a series of uncanny events. Lettie Colston is the first to receive an anonymous phone call ...Show more
Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize On a rainy Sunday afternoon, Mrs Palfrey, recently widowed, arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are a mixed bunch - magnificently flawed and eccentric - living off crumbs of affection and an obsessive interest in t ...Show more
No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Dulcie Mainwearing is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola is besotted by the alluring Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if Dulcie helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's pretty young niece. And perhaps D ...Show more
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns; Maggie O'Farrell (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
"I told Helen my story and she went home and cried." So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns's beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and na ve when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of he ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For ...Show more
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more
The Bay Of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place. Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama waits her there. She has an introduction to a Neapolitan woman, and one ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley (Virago Modern Classic) by Grace Paley; George Saunders (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'This is a collection full of energy and stunning, quiet innovation ... it spills over with contempt, raucous humour, sadness and generosity. In it, life and language are synonymous, and there is no higher praise. What a wonderful book' Ali Smith Here are all Grace Paley's classic stories in one volume. ...Show more
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner; Philip Hensher (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In memory of the wife who had once dishonored and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey to the ...Show more
The Fran Lebowitz Reader (PB) by Fran Lebowitz
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS'She's inexhaustible ...Show more
The Healing by Gayl Jones
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Gayl Jones's special gift is to shape experience and make it seem unshaped. -John Alfred Avant, The New Republic Gayl Jones's first novel, Corregidora, won her recognition as a writer whose work was gripping, subtle, and sure. It was praised, along with her second novel, Eva's Man, by writers and criti ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities. Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepte ...Show more