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William Blake: Poems (Vintage Classics) by William Blake; Patti Smith (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"William Blake is one of Britain s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source o ...Show more
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
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Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Since 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends--Piglet, Owl, Tigger, and the ever doleful Eeyore--have endured as the unforgettable creations of A.A. Milne, who wrote this book for his son, Christopher Robin, and Ernest H. Shepard, who lovingly gave Pooh and his companions shape. These characters and their ...Show more
Winter by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A monumental work ... brilliantly executed' Daily Telegraph 'The pace and tension leave one almost breathless. A frightening yet compelling novel' Sunday Telegraph Peter and Paul, the two sons of German businessman Harald Winter, are bonded together by a childhood trauma. But as they grow up the brothe ...Show more
Winter's Tales - The Sailor-boy's Tale; the Young Man with the Carnation; the Pearls by Isak Dinesen
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
After the huge success of her autobiography, Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen returned to a European setting in these exquisite, rapturous tales of rebirth and redemption. Beginning with a sailor-boy's bold progression to manhood, the stories are full of longing, a theme often mirrored in the desire to escap ...Show more
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
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Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom """Wise Blood," Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against hi ...Show more
Wise Children by Angela Carter
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards and chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy newnovel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identitiesas any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich
39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Contemporary Classics Ser.
First published in 1973, this is an essential work on the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunts. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have written an entirely new chapter that delves into the current fascination with and controversies about ...Show more
Withnail and I by Kevin Jackson
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Category: Film & Music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Withnail and I sank almost without a trace when it was first released in 1987. Financed by HandMade Films, the late George Harrison's production company, and drawing heavily on first-time writer-director Bruce Robinson's experiences, this virtually plot-free story follows two out-of-work actors (Withnai ...Show more
Woman of the Future - Text Classics by David Ireland; Kate Jennings (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"Immense originality, wit, and gritty wisdom. . . . David Ireland has reached the top."--Patrick WhiteAn imaginative tour de force, A Woman of the Future is the story of the young life of Anthea Hunt--from conception to sexual awakening. It is controversial and brilliant, and unlike anything else in Aus ...Show more
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suf ...Show more
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: Rider Classics Ser.
A beautiful collectable gift edition celebrating the 30 year anniversary of the ultimate cult feminist classic Within every woman, there lies a powerful force of energy, creativity and self-knowing: their wild woman. For centuries, she has been repressed by a male-orientated value system that trivialise ...Show more
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Peter William Evans
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Category: Film & Music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Pedro Almodovar's 1988 black comedy-melodrama Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown established its director as one of the most exciting of European film-making talents. An often hilarious study of sexual mores, Women on the Verge has a central character, Pepa (Carmen Maura), as warm and richly draw ...Show more