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Gilbert Murray: A Life
$30.00 AUD
Author: Francis WestBinding: HardbackPublished: Croom Helm Ltd - St.Martin's Press, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, Gilbert Murray A Life, chronicles the extraordinary intellectual journey of...
Gilbert Murray, 1866-1957
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Born in Australia, Gilbert Murray came to England at the age of 11. After a brilliant career in Classics at Oxford, he became Professor of Greek at Glasgow at the...
The Medea
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew tragedies in the Western canon cut as deeply as Euripides' The Medea, a searing portrait of a woman scorned to the...
The Apple in the Dark
'The best one', as Clarice herself described it - her great mystical masterpiece In the mistaken belief that he has killed his wife, Martim flees the city and arrives, in...
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Tremendous and shattering' - The Times 'Powerful and engaging' - Literary Review The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a...
The Divine Comedy: Paradise
The final volume in this brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy. The final volume in a brilliant translation destined to...
The Winds of God
The sweeping saga of the noble Wakefields and the lower-class Morgans continues with this compelling account of the Spanish Armada during the reign of Elizabeth I.
The Sword of Truth
Series premiere special price! Two families-the Wakefields of nobility and the lower-class Morgans-are the focus of this sweeping generational saga, joined by intriguing personalities such as Elizabeth I, William Tyndale,...
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 3: The Guermantes Way
Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.' Sunday Telegraph Since the...
The Master and Margarita
'A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction' New York Times in Bulgakov's allegorical masterpiece of Stalin's regime the devil is making a personal appearance in Moscow. He is accompanied...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The definitive translation of the world's oldest known epic, now revised in a second edition (2020) and updated with newly discovered material. The definitive translation of the world's oldest known...
The Weatherboard Cathedral
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ: unclipped; noticeable tear on front panel, in mylar. Markings: name penned on title page. Otherwise...
Honeybees and Distant Thunder
THE NIGHT CIRCUS meets LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR- A Japanese bestseller about three students whose friendship is tested to the limit as they fight to compete in the drama...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation
This is the Classics edition of one of the greatest works created by any culture, and overwhelmingly the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West The most...
The Master and Margarita: New Translation
Russia's literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It...
Churchill: A Life: The Official Biography
The classic, bestselling, official biography of Winston Churchill, back in print for the first time in two decades 'By far the most lucid, comprehensive and authoritative account of Churchill that...
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 6: Finding Time Again
'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.' Sunday Telegraph Since the original, prewar translation there has been...
Grandma Came Across On A Raft...
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Author: Gilbert AnstrutherBinding: HardbackPublished: MURRAY, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsGilbert Anstruther's Grandma Came Across On A Raft... presents a captivating narrative, recounting an...
Sanshiro
Jay Rubin's translation of Soseki's cherished novel, new to Penguin Classics One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for...
William Morris: His Life, Work and Friends
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The book titled William Morris: His Life, Work and Friends by the author Philip Henderson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Birds, Beasts and a World Made New
A revelatory volume of two of the twentieth century's great poetic innovators, Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, in vibrant new translations by Robert Chandler Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov never...
Your Neighbour's Table: An incisive and timely Korean bestseller about
'An important literary piece of feminist activism' 'Taps into the everyday minutiae of motherhood, baring to all the unspoken labours that women take on both inside and out of parenthood'...
Taller When Prone
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"Les Murray has earned his reputation not only as one of Australia's finest writers but as one of the most engaging poets writing in English today." -- Kate Kellaway, The...
Best Seller
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Author: William MurrayBinding: HardbackPublished: LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO., 1957Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markings'Best Seller' presents a witty and incisive look into the cutthroat world of book publishing. This...
Best Known Gilbert & Sullivan Operas And Bab Ballads
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Edition: 1st edCondition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, fading to edges and spine. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings visible. Binding condition: Intact. Stickers/Labels:...
Luigi's Freedom Ride
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The Odyssey: Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years....
Plays By W. S. Gilbert
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Author: W. S. GilbertBinding: PaperbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis collection presents the theatrical genius of a celebrated...
Mouroir: Mirror Notes of a Novel
The book titled Mouroir: Mirror Notes of a Novel by the author Breyten Breytenbach. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Gentleman Publisher's Commonplace Book
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Beau Geste
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Author: Percival Christopher WrenBinding: HardbackPublished: JOHN MURRAY, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis gripping adventure novel chronicles the extraordinary exploits of three...
The Metamorphoses
"Golding makes Ovid both dreamy and robust. Here we can listen to the English language as it moves confidently into the highest eloquence" - Tom Paulin Bringing together a series...
Sanshiro
A gorgeous new clothbound edition of Soseki's cherished novel, with an introduction by Murakami 'Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself - not...
Prometheus: The Life Of Balzac
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few literary lives burn as brilliantly —...
The Annotated Gilbert And Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates Of Penzance, Iolanthe, The Mikado, The Gondoliers
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew partnerships in the history of Western entertainment have proven as enduringly beloved as that of W.S. Gilbert...
The Shoes Of The Fisherman (SIGNED)
$100.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: SignedWhat if the most powerful spiritual office in the world were thrust upon a man shaped not...
Churchill and America
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The Complete Poetry
A wonderful edition of Herbert's poetry, edited by his acclaimed biographer John Drury, and including elegant new translations of his Latin verse by Victoria Moul George Herbert wrote, but never...
Language Arts and the Learner
The book titled Language Arts and the Learner by the author John Murray. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
New translation by Bernard O'Donoghue Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight...
Game Without Rules
Two secret agents living in the English countryside try - and fail - to live a quiet life, in these hugely enjoyable crime stories Behrens and Calder are two secret...
KENTISH LAD A
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