Vanity Fair (TVTI) by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Classics
Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends with the lovely Amelia Sedley at Miss Pinkerton?s Academy for Young Ladies. She may not have the natural advantages of her companion but she more than makes up for it with her wit, charm, deviousness and determination to make a success of herself ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's "Ulysses" is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written betwe ...Show more
A Very Modern Dictionary (updated 2020 Edition): Over 600 Words, Idioms, Acronyms and Slang to Keep Your Culture Game on Point by Tobias Anthony
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$24.99 (51% off)
Category: Classics
Trouble negotiating the modern world, what with all these newfangled words and phrases so beloved of Gen Z and Millennials? We're here to help. This handy dictionary hilariously captures the state of the English language in the year 2020. The Internet--and more specifically, social media--can make n ...Show more
Tragedy: The Greeks and Us by Simon Critchley
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Category: Classics
A provocative and timely exploration into tragedy from the curator of The New York Times philosophy column.
The Trials of Portnoy by Patrick Mullins
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Fifty years after the event, here is the first full account of an audacious publishing decision that — with the help of booksellers and readers around the country — forced the end of literary censorship in Australia. For more than seventy years, a succession of politicians, judges, and government offic ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov
$55.00 AUD
Category: Classics
The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career. Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, t ...Show more
The Moth: Occasional Magic - True Stories of Defying the Impossible by Catherine Burns (Introduction by, Editor); The Moth
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Category: Classics
Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. Storytelling phenomenon The Moth recaptures this lost each week in cities across America, ...Show more
The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar's and Everything in Between by Stephanie Butnick; Liel Leibovitz; Mark Oppenheimer
$79.99 AUD
Category: Classics
An Unorthodox Guide to Everything Jewish Deeply knowing, highly entertaining, and just a little bit irreverent, this unputdownable encyclopedia of all things Jewish and Jew-ish covers culture, religion, history, habits, language, and more. Readers will refresh their knowledge of the Patriarchs and Matri ...Show more
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
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Category: Classics
"What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. would ask a few of the astronauts and find out- The men had it. Yeager. Co ...Show more
The Little Book of Lost Words - Collywobbles, Ultracrepidarian and Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting (HB) by Joe Gillard
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
An A-Z collection of some of the most unique words in history, this delightful book deals with surprisingly modern issues - such as sleeping in and procrastination - proving that while our language may change, humans do not!The Little Book of Lost Words presents each term ready for modern-day use, comp ...Show more
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe
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Category: Classics
Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careenedthrough the 1960s In 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, an incandescent panorama of A ...Show more
The Complete Classical Music Guide by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics
What makes Mozart's music so great? Why does a minor chord sound sad and a major chord sound happy? What's the difference between opera and operetta? From Bach to Bernstein, this definitive guide offers a complete survey of the history of classical music.Whether you already love classical music or you'r ...Show more