Three Plays: Rising Water, Signs of Life, Shrine by Tim Winton
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Category: Classics & Poetry
Marked by Winton's signature ear for dialogue, these are three searing plays about survival, mourning, and the remarkable gift of redemption.Winton's first play, Rising Water, sees middle-aged fringe-dwellers Col, Baxter and Jackie living aboard neighbouring boats in a crowded marina. Each of them nurse ...Show more
2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Space Odyssey Ser.
Arthur C.Clarke's space saga contines in 2061, when an Earth vessel landing on Halley's Comet marks the beginning of another confrontation between Heywood Floyd and David Bowman - or whatever Bowman has become - a newly independent HAL and the unseen alien power that controls the destiny of Earth.
Aqua Spinach by Luke Beesley
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Category: Classics & Poetry
Melbourne poet Luke Beesley's third collection with Giramondo. Aqua Spinach rounds out a trilogy of books interested in the affinities between poetry and other media - visual arts, music, and particularly in this collection, cinema. The poems in Aqua Spinach blend observation, memory and anecdote, produ ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics & Poetry
This new hardback edition is one of five special Puffin Classic editions created in partnership with the world-famous V & A Museum, with exquisite cover designs from their William Morris collection. Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-na ...Show more
On Living and Dying Well by Cicero
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Category: Classics & Poetry
In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry. A pragmatist at heart, Cicero's philosophies were frequently personal and ethica ...Show more
The Wealth of Nations: Books IV-V by Adam Smith
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism in the modern sense of the words. Smith details his argument in five books: Book I. Of th ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Vintage Classics
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of ...Show more
Electra and other Plays by Sophocles
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Category: Classics & Poetry
Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collects four of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief of a young woman for her fath ...Show more
Harbour by Kate Llewellyn
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Category: Classics & Poetry
Art is always like this Mysterious as light. Quiet and insightful, raw in its simplicity, Kate Llewellyn's latest book examines a life well lived, dipping in and out of memory to tell a tale of small moments and the wisdom of growing old. The poem 'Harbour' touches on what is lost and gained in growin ...Show more
Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester
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Category: Classics & Poetry
'It's Hong Kong,' she said. 'Heung gong. Fragrant harbour.' "Fragrant Harbour" is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last seventy years. Tom Stewart leaves England to seek his fortune, and finds it in running Hong Kong's best hotel. Sister Maria is a beautiful and uncompromisin ...Show more