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---LeadingArticle: Thecontent: Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Jack Wang; Holman Wang
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Cozy Classics Ser.
Cuddle up with a classic In twelve needle-felted scenes and twelve child-friendly words, each book in this ingenious series captures the essence of a literary masterpiece. Simple words, sturdy pages, and a beloved story make these books the perfect vehicle for early learning with an erudite twist. Buddi ...Show more
100 Artists' Manifestos - From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Danchev Alex
$26.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism, Stridentism, Cannibalism and Stuckism, taking in along the way film, architect ...Show more
117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law by Ruth First
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'In prison you see only the moves of the enemy. Prison is the hardest place to fight a battle.' 117 Days is Ruth First's personal account of her detention under the iniquitous '90-day' law of 1963. There was no warrant, no charge and no trial - only suspicion. This sparsely written and unique record tel ...Show more
12 Years a Slave (Word Cloud Classics) by Solomon Northup
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Category: Biography | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
The basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie "A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation." -- Saturday ReviewBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, DC, in 1841. He spent th ...Show more
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Winston Smith rewrites history. It's his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people of Oceania. Winston knows what a good citizen of Oceania must do: show his devotion for Big Brother and the Party ...Show more
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Chartwell Classics HB) by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
First serialized in a French magazine from 1869 to 1870, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an incredible adventure story that popularized science fiction throughout the world.Professor Aronnax, a marine biologist, joins harpoonist Ned Land in search of a mysterious sea creature in the open ocean, ...Show more
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Collins Classics) by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the monster turns out to be the Nautilus, a giant submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom ...Show more
20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Bantam Classics Ser.
An American frigate, tracking down a ship-sinking monster, faces not a living creature but an incredible invention -- a fantastic submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo. Suddenly a devastating explosion leaves just three survivors who find themselves prisoners in Nemo's death ship on an unde ...Show more
50 Philosophy Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon
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Category: Hints | Series: 50 Classics Ser.
For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sar ...Show more
50 Politics Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon
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Category: Politics | Series: 50 Classics Ser.
We live in politically charged times, but little of what we contend with today is new and much can be learned from history. 50 Politics Classics reveals the major writings of political leaders, philosophers, and activists, spanning over 2,000 years. With insightful commentaries on the texts and biograph ...Show more
84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
84, Charing Cross Road with introduction by Anne Bancroft. 'A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with [humankind].'
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul; Patrick Marnham (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the i ...Show more