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London Stories by Jerry White
$34.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, Defoe and Dickens. But there has also been an innumerable host of writers who have sought to capture the ess ...Show more
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
A history of India since independence seen through the eyes of characters born on that independence was granted. Often hailed as a classic of magic realism, this is a many-layered and entralling narrative in which the complexities of the sub-continent are projected through the minds of its many characte ...Show more
Rome Stories by Jonathan Keates (Editor); TBC Staff
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
From Plutarch to Pasolini, from Henry James to Alberto Moravia, this collection of classic tales of the Eternal City draws on a wide range of brilliant writers from ancient times to the present. A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology. EVERYMAN'S POCKET CLASSICS. During its three-thousand-year his ...Show more
Russian Fairy Tales by I.IA. Bilibin
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics
The famous stage-designer Ivan Bilibin was a self-taught artist who was lucky enough to be offered the commission of a lifetime at the very start of his career. In 1899 the Department for the Production of State Documents asked this young Russian artist to illustrate a series of fairy tales, a task that ...Show more
STORIES OF THE SEA by EVERYMAN
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
A gathering of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred years: tales of shipwrecks and storms at sea, of creatures from the deep, of voyages that test human limits on the wild and limitless waters. Classic adventures stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Steve ...Show more
The Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/the High Window by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Raymond Chandler's first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. The Big Sleep, Chandler's first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he ta ...Show more
The Collected Stories (Everyman's Library HB) by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Including all of Hemingway's shorter fiction, this collection is introduced by the poet James Fenton. The stories touch on the same themes as his novels: war, love, the nature of heroism, renunciation and the writer's life. They are arranged chronologically.
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Literature | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
General Simon Bolivar, 'the Liberator' of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he ...Show more
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
A bitter-sweet tale of quiet lives in the small and apparently timeless world of mid-19th century Sicilian nobility. Through the eyes of his princely protagonist, the author chronicles the details of an aristocratic, pastoral society, torn apart by revolution, death and decay.
The Susan Effect by Peter Hoeg
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Category: Literature | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Susan Svendsen has a special talent: she has a unique ability to make people confide in her and tell her their innermost secrets. She has exploited that talent, and now has a prison sentence hanging over her head for punching a Bollywood actor in an Indian casino. To make matters worse, her husband is o ...Show more
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
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Category: Literature | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
The Tsar of Love and Techno begins in 1930s Leningrad, where a failed portrait artist is tasked by Soviet censors to erase political dissenters from official images and artworks. One day, he receives an antique painting of a dacha inside a box of images meant to be altered. The mystery behind this paint ...Show more
Venice Stories by Jonathan Keates (Editor)
$31.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories set in Venice, by an international array of brilliant writers. The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. The international selection of stories gathered in this volume features such classics as Thoma ...Show more