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Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales (Bath Treasury) by Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm
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Category: Childrens | Series: Bath Classics Ser.
Stories in this collection include: 'The Frog Prince', 'Hansel and Gretel', 'Tom Thumb', 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Sleeping Beauty' and 'The Goose Girl'.
Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
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Category: Reference | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinchs--Clytie--Hero and LeanderXIV. Minerva and Arachne--NiobeXV. The Graeae and Gorgons--Perseus and Medusa--Atlas--AndromedaXVI. Monsters: Giants--Sphinx--Pegasus and Chimaera--Centaurs--Griffin--PygmiesXVII. The Golden Fleece--MedeaXVIII. Meleager and AtalantaXIX. H ...Show more
Cafe Scheherazade: Text Classics by Arnold Zable
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade. Thus begins Arnold Zable's haunting meditation on displacement, and the way the effects of war linger in the minds of its survivors. In this deeply moving book we meet Avram and Masha, proprietors of the cafe, and hear the tales that ...Show more
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout o ...Show more
Capital: Volume I by Karl Marx
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Category: History | Series: Classics Ser.
One of the most influential political and philosophical texts ever writtenOne of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work was la ...Show more
Capital: Volume II by Karl Marx, David Bach
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.
Capital: Volume III by Karl Marx, David Bach
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
It is in this third volume that Marx sets out his central thesis that "the basic laws of motion of the capitalist mode of production lead to explosive crises and its ultimate collapse". Here we find not only a sustained economic and social description of capitalism as a system and the bourgeoisie as a c ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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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
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Charles Dickens : Four Novels : The Adventures of Oliver Twist or the Parish Boy's Progress/A Christmas Carol/A Tale of Two Cities/Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; Ernest Hilbert (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
No library's complete without the classics This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects the greatest works of Charles Dickens, one of the most popular novelists of all time. Oliver Twist. Pip. The ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. The characters of Charles Dickens live on in our imagin ...Show more
City Of God by St Augustine
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and "City of God" is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of R ...Show more