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Letters to Véra by Vladímir Nabokov; Vera Nabokova; Brian Boyd
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The letters of the great writer to his wife--gathered here for the first time--chronicle a decades-long love story and document anew the creative energies of an artist who was always at work. No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov's to Vera Slon ...Show more
Men Without Women - Stories by Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel (Translator); Ted Goossen (Translator)
$31.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A dazzling new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and ...Show more
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
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$26.95 (77% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold? Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mo ...Show more
NIV Anglicised Gift and Award Bible by New International Version
$12.99 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: New International Version Ser.
With over 400 million Bibles in print, the New International Version is the renowned combination of reliability and readability. The NIV is ideal for personal reading, public teaching and group study. Translated by a team of top international scholars, this revised and updated edition takes into account ...Show more
Nemesis by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the startling and surprising theme of Roth's wrenching new book- a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 ...Show more
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Satre
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between the ...Show more
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
$32.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Truman Capote's first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South. At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father ...Show more
Paradise by Toni Morrison
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of PARADISE. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter culture and the politics of the late ...Show more
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Portnoy's Complaint n. after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are p ...Show more
Runaway by Alice Munro
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 The incomparable Alice Munro's bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway""is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable ...Show more
Selected Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke; Stephen Mitchell (Translator, Editor); Robert Hass (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: International Ser.
The supreme problem of every age is that of finding its consummate artistic expression. Before this problem every other remains of secondary importance. History defines and directs its physical course, science cooperates in the achievement of its material aims, but Art alone gives to the age its spiritu ...Show more