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The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks by Angela Carter; Joan Acocella (Introduction by)
$42.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
In The Bloody Chamber, Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Riding's grandmother is stoned to death as a witch; a young music student is swept off her feet in Paris by a middle-aged aristocrat and transported to h ...Show more
The Bookshop / The Gate of Angels / The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Publisher's description: The Bookshop is a postwar tragicomedy of manners, set in an isolated seaside town where an enterprising woman opens a bookstore only to find it beset by poltergeists, weather, and hostile townsfolk. The Gate of Angels is an Edwardian romance within a novel of ideas: a young doct ...Show more
The Bookshop: WITH The Gate of Angels AND The Blue Flow by Penelope Fitzgerald
$36.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. She began her writing career in 1975 at the age of fifty-nine, and over the next two decades she published three biographies, nine novels, and a c ...Show more
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
$49.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of "T ...Show more
The Collected Works by Kahlil Gibran
$47.95 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) For the first time, all the major works of this beloved writer are gathered together in one hardcover volume. Poet, artist, and mystic, Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiec ...Show more
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Giorgio Bassani's acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature. Made into an Academy Award--winning film in 1970, "The Garden of the Finzi--Continis "is a richly evocati ...Show more
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Chilean writer Isabel Allende's classic bestseller is a richly symbolic family saga that is also the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country's turbulent history. In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colourful and all-too-human inhabitants ...Show more
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
$55.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Mann's best-known novel illustrating the cultural misgivings and misanthropy that gave rise to the First World War. A novel rich in philosophy, historical literacy and present anxiety.
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom and Selected Essays by Albert Camus
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
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The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories by James M Cain
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)These three classics from the master of the noir novel, along with five otherwise unavailable short stories, are electric with the taut narrative voice, the suspense, and the explosive violence and eroticism that were James M. Cain's indelible hallmarks."The Postman Always ...Show more
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
$36.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
'She had resolved to trust in everything, and, having so trusted, she would not provide for herself any possibility of retreat.' Lively and attractive, Lily Dale lives with her mother and sister at the Small House at Allington. She falls passionately in love with the suave Adolphus Crosbie, and is d ...Show more
The Stranger by CAMUS ALBERT
$32.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.