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A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland
$20.95 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language | Series: Little Histories Ser.
This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infecti ...Show more
Baudelaire by Jean-Paul Sartre
$27.95 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
Sartre's study of Baudelaire is one of the more brilliant achievements of modern criticism. We may often disagree with his interpretations of the poet's personality, but we cannot fail to wonder at the mastery with which he presents his case. It is the case, quite patently, of an Existentialist who wish ...Show more
Reading the Seasons: Books Holding Life and Friendship Together by Germaine Leece, Sonya Tsakalakis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
It's an old cliché that books 'transport you'; but as any avid reader will tell you, there's far more to them than that. Alongside comfort and retreat, books offer insight into ourselves and others; they tell us how the world is, was or might be; they are windows into other worlds, whose meanings resona ...Show more
The Illustrated Letters of the Brontes: The Letters, Diaries and Writings of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte by Juliet Gardiner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
The Illustrated Letters of the Brontes is the story both of the real world of the Brontes at Haworth Parsonage, their home on the edge of the lonely Yorkshire moors, and of the imaginary worlds they spun for themselves in their novels and poetry. Wherever possible, their story is told using their own wo ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
$24.99 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks
This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles that must be overcome on the path toward a harmonious unity of the sexes.
Murder Your Darlings - And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser by Roy Peter Clark
$22.99 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
From one of America's most influential teachers, a collection of the best writing advice distilled from fifty language books -- from Aristotle to Strunk and White. With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look for the best advice. Should you go with ...Show more
Southern Cross Crime by Craig Sisterson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
Southern Cross Crime is the first comprehensive guide to modern Australian and New Zealand crime writing. From coastal cities to the Outback, leading critic Craig Sisterson showcases key titles from more than 200 storytellers, plus screen dramas ranging from Mystery Road to Top of the Lake. Fascinating ...Show more
In the Presence of Schopenhauer by Michel Houellebecq; Andrew Brown (Translator)
$20.95 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
The work of Michel Houellebecq - one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time - is marked by the thought of Schopenhauer. When Houellebecq came across a copy of Schopenhauer's Aphorisms in a library in his mid-twenties, he was bowled over by it and he hunted down a copy of his maj ...Show more
Pity the Reader - On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut; Suzanne McConnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, "Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul." He would screw up his lips into a prune face after he said this because of how important he believed this idea to be. Pity the Reader is the very embodiment of that idea, a book about writing and life and why the two ...Show more
Love, Kurt - The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 by Kurt Vonnegut; Edith Vonnegut (Editor)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
A never-before-seen collection of deeply intimate love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter and reproduced in gorgeous full color. "If ever I do write anything of length--good or bad--it will be written with you in mind." Kurt Vonnegut's oldest daug ...Show more
Not a Novel : Collected Writings and Reflections by Jenny Erpenbeck
$29.99 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
A collection of intimate and explosive essays on literature, life, history, politics and place from the award-winning author of Go, Went, Gone and The End of Days. Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing, the book plots a ...Show more
Genius and Ink - Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Fors ...Show more