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Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
An experimental novel about a young man who yearns for something greater than his everyday life holds.New to the Vintage Classics Woolf series, this is Woolf's groundbreaking experimental novel.Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
"At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Bront '"-Virginia Woolf "Given the action of Jane Eyre, which is in every sense dramatic, there is a pull, all the same, between action and consciousness." -Raymond Williams "Teaching the true s ...Show more
Jazz by Toni Morrison
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Deco
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?'Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the i ...Show more
Jealousy by Marcel Proust
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis | Reading Level: very good
Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try and possess one another, how jealousy can outlive death, and whether we can ever reclaim those careless days of first ...Show more
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Magic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers. Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who is on the run, and Nakata, an aging simpleton who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami en ...Show more
Kings in Grass Castles by Mary Durack
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
When Patrick Durack left Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a dynasty of pioneers, and build an empire of cattle-land across the great stretches of Australia. His grand-daughter, Mary Durack, with a profound sense of family history, has rebuilt the saga of the Duracks, a saga that is the sto ...Show more
Language: Vintage Minis by Xiaolu Guo
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turn ...Show more
Liberty: Vintage Minis by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind. From an exploration of why women were barred from writing and under what condi ...Show more
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Vita Sackville-West; Virginia Woolf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sexuality and Gender | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you... At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in ...Show more
Love: Vintage Minis by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing. Here are selections from her books about that impossible, essential force, stories and truths that search for t ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert's legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatch ...Show more
Marriage: Vintage Minis by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Why do we set so much store by marriage? These excerpts from her novels show that Jane Austen was fascinated by this question, subjecting it to her forensic eye and wonderfully ironic wit again and again.