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A Fairly Honourable Defeat: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL 'I ...Show more
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Vintage Classics
In its search for authorities and examples, which range from Nietzsche to Zen, from Ruysbroek to Debussy, the book might be considered an encyclopaedia of that affirmative discourse which is the lover's.
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of wome ...Show more
Art and Decoration - Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies by Oscar Wilde
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Category: No Category | Series: Art / Books Vintage Classics Ser.
The essence of Oscar Wilde's aesthetic credo: a gorgeous, pocket-sized, clothbound facsimile of a key 1920 collectionOscar Wilde was one of the most influential writers on art and design in the late 19th century. Alongside his acclaimed plays, novel and short stories, he wrote and lectured extensively o ...Show more
Augustus - A Novel by John Williams
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs. A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is mu ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Category: Fiction | 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
Camera Lucida - Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposit ...Show more
Claudine Married (Claudine #3) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Claudine's marriage to Renaud has settled into a pattern of bickering and inattention. Just as she begins to fear herself confined to a stifled existence, a chance meeting with a friend's wife, the beautiful Rezi, draws her into an impassioned affair.
Claudine and Annie by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In this final novel in Colette's famous series it is Claudine's friend Annie who tells the story in the form of a private diary. Claudine is happily settled with her adored husband Renaud, spending her time giving wide and worldly advice to despairing Annie whose life with the boring and dominating Alai ...Show more
Claudine at School (Claudine #1) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the lanky Anais, the cheerful Marie and the prim Joubert twins Claudine wreaks havoc on her small school. Always clever, witty and charming Claudine is more than a match for her formidable headmistress as they ...Show more
Claudine in Paris (Claudine #2) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage classics
Claudine is in despair, having left her beloved Montigny for a new life in Paris. But her instinctive curiosity gradually leads to an awakened interest in the city. She records her witty observations and adventures amongst the intriguing characters that surround her.
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Paris in the twenties- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and t ...Show more