The Masterpiece by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salo ...Show more
Middlemarch (Vintage Classics) by George Eliot
19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life...?Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they, and the other inhabitant ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday- Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed i ...Show more
The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats by W. B. Yeats
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described ...Show more
The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt
24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Australia, The Hazards is a dazzling and inventive collection. Opening with a vision of a leveret's agonizing death by myxomatosis and closing with a lover disappearing into dangerous waters, Holland-Batt reflects a predatory worl ...Show more
The Removalists by David Williamson
23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Plays
A young policeman's first day on duty becomes a violent initiation into the nastier aspects of law enforcement (2 acts, 4 men, 2 women).
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
A classic of 20th-century theatre, Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and was filmed by Roman Polanski starring Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver. A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her li ...Show more
Little Women & Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconve ...Show more
The Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
This is the first paperback edition to bring out in one volume Kate Chopin's extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899), along with the complete text of her two collections of short stories, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), and twelve uncollected tales.The Awakening is a strikingly modern, ...Show more
The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils - and even for ordinary citizens in the courts of law. In response, the technique of rhetoric rapidly developed, bringing virtu ...Show more
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
26.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary "My Brilliant Career" when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to "Jane Eyre." But the ...Show more
Waltzing the Wilarra by David Milroy
23.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Current Theatre Ser.
It's 1940s post-war Perth. Against a backdrop of curfews, and the fear of arrest for consorting, White and Black manage to form their own club. Forty years on, as the club faces demolition, Charlie, Elsa and Fay meet once again to stage a musical reunion and protest in an attempt to save their old stomp ...Show more