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Upanishads by Suren Navlakha
$16.95 AUD
Category: Art & Music | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Upanishads are mankind's oldest works of philosophy, predating the earliest Greek philosophy. They are the concluding part of the Vedas, the ancient Indian sacred literature, and mark the culmination of a tradition of speculative thought first expressed in the Rig-Veda more than 4000 years ago. Remarkab ...Show more
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless ...Show more
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The 50th Anniversary Edition of Jacqueline Susann's All-Time Pop-Culture Classic The perfect gift for any Valley fan or your favorite Doll, featuring a new cover design - introduction by Simon Doonan - never-before-seen archival material - an essay from Jackie, "My Book Is Not Dirty " At a time when wom ...Show more
Van Gogh by Wilhelm Uhde
$190.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Phaidon Classics
Phaidon's classic illustrated monograph on Van Gogh, updated with an elegantly crafted design for today's burgeoning art aficionados.Reviving a much beloved group of artist monographs from the Phaidon archive, the new "Phaidon Classics" bring to life the fine craftsmanship and design of Phaidon books of ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847-48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. The book's title comes from John Bunyan's allegorical story The Pilgrim's P ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 'I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year, 'observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thack ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
$6.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic o ...Show more
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, "Vanity of Duluoz" presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack's glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel t ...Show more
Victory by Joseph Conrad
$5.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The girl he had come across ...that human being so near and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life.' Damaged by his father's nihilistic philosophy, Axe ...Show more
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her own complex feelings, first for the ...Show more
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
$6.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Based on Charlotte Bronte's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with ...Show more
Virgin and the Gypsy & Other Stories by D.H. Lawrence
$6.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
These stories of myth and resurrection, of uncanny events and violent impulse, were with one exception written and published in the latter half of the 1920s, coinciding with the composition of Lawrence's controversial masterpiece Lady Chatterley's Lover. At this time Lawrence declared himself to be 'rea ...Show more