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When I Was Old by Georges Simenon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty'. Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly ideas that pass through my head', ...Show more
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession by Irvin D Yalom, M.D.
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Perennial Classics (Paperback)
In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal des ...Show more
Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: Or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street by Fred Schwed
$30.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Wiley Investment Classics
'Once I picked it up I did not put it down until I finished...What Schwed has done is capture fully-in deceptively clean language - the lunacy at the heart of the investment business' - From the Foreword by Michael Lewis, Bestselling author of "Liar's Poker". '...one of the funniest books ever written a ...Show more
White Album: Essays by Joan Didion
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define m ...Show more
White Boots (Essential Modern Classics) by Noel Streatfeild
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Modern Classics
Harriet must choose between her friend Lalla and her new-found love of ice-skating! "If you pass your inter-silver, I'll tell Aunt Claudia that I don't want to work with you any more." Harriet is told that she must take up ice-skating in order to improve her health. She isn't much good at it, until she ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$8.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. Two devastating Russian stories of solitude, unrequited love and depravity from beyond the grave. Film adaptations have been made by Italian ...Show more
Why I Am so Clever : Little Black Classic by Friedrich Nietzsche
$3.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 102
Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether? Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series ...Show more
Why I Write? - The Early Prose from 1945 To 1952 by Bohumil Hrabal
$32.95 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Modern Czech Classics Ser.
"Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal's later virtuosity." --New Yorker "A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce and Beckett. . . . Early work from a writer who merits a larger readership." --Kirkus Reviews This collection of the earliest prose by one ...Show more
Why I am not a Christian: and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Routledge Classics
'Why I am not a Christian' is considered one of the most blasphemous philosophical documents ever written, and at a time when we have faith schools and wars over religious beliefs, its message today couldn't be more relevant. If religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always b ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Seais edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress An ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea (Clothbound Classic) by Jean Rhys
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light on ...Show more
Wild Cat Falling by Mudrooroo
$17.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: A&R Classics
This was the first novel by a writer of Aboriginal blood to be published in Australia and in 1965 marked a unique literary event. "Wild Cat Falling" is the story of an Australia Aboriginal youth who grows up on the ragged outskirts of a country town. He falls into petty crime, goes to gaol and comes out ...Show more