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Death in Midsummer and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Nine of Yukio Mishima's finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters are sophisticated modern Japanese who turn out to be not so liberated f ...Show more
Deep Water: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?' Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of he ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich fa ...Show more
FOOD CULTURE IN COLONIAL ASIA : A TASTE OF EMPIRE - SIGNED by Cecilia Leong-Salobir
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia Ser.
Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between 1858 and 1963. Domestic cookbooks, household management manuals, memoirs, diaries and travelogue ...Show more
FRANCE 1848 - 1945 : VOL 2 INTELLECT, TASTE AND ANXIETY by Theodore Zeldin
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Oxford History of Modern Europe Ser.
Analyzes the Frenchman's unique national identity, attitudes towards foreigners, education, and intellectual and cultural development from the late 1840's through the 1900's.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Flamingo Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His jo ...Show more
Giulio Romano by Manfredo Tafuri (Editor); Fabio Berry (Translator); Nicholas Adams (Contribution by); Paul Davies (Contribution by); E. H. Gombrich (Contribution by); Cristoph L. Frommel (Contribution by); Amedeo Belluzzi (Contribution by); Kurt W. Forster (Contribution by); Howard Burns (Contribution by); Antonio Forcellino (Contribution by); Pier N. Pagliara (Contribution by); Francesco P. Fiore (Contribution by)
$700.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Architecture in Early Modern Italy Ser.
The Giulio Romano exhibition in Mantua in 1989 was the occasion for the publication, for the first time, of a full and thorough account of Guilio's art. A hugely successful catalogue, Giulio Romano brought to the public's attention the extraordinary range of the artist's activities and placed his work w ...Show more
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Saved, rescued, fished-up, half-drowned, out of the deep, dark river, dry clothes, hair shampooed and set... Set in a 1930s Paris of shabby hotel rooms, seedy bars and drunken encounters, Jean Rhys's semi-autobiographical portrayal of a young woman's sexual encounters is a searingly honest exploration o ...Show more
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"It blazes as fiercly and scintillatingly as a forest fire. There is life here; a great rage to live more fully. In this it is a giant among novels." (San Francisco Examiner) Saul Bellow evokes all the rich colors and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this acclaimed comic novel about a ...Show more
History Of The Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
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Category: HISTORY | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book presents, from the pers ...Show more
Hitler and Germany by B. J. Elliott
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Modern Times Ser.
Little Birds by Anais Nin
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter, a sleepless wanderer of the night, a guitar-playing gypsy ...Show more