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10 by Geoff Andrew
24.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami burst onto the international film scene in the early 1990s and was widely regarded as one of the most distinctive and talented modern-day directors. His major features - including Through the Olive Trees (1994), Taste of Cherry (1997) and The Wind Will Carry Us (199 ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has ...Show more
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Collins Classics) by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the monster turns out to be the Nautilus, a giant submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom ...Show more
2001: a Space Odyssey - Expert Criticism on Classic Films by Peter Krämer
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Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Stanley Kubrick's 2001- A Space Odyssey (1968) is widely regarded as one of the best films ever made. It has been celebrated for its beauty and mystery, its realistic depiction of space travel and dazzling display of visual effects, the breathtaking scope of its story, which reaches across millions of y ...Show more
50 Philosophy Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: 50 Classics Ser.
For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sar ...Show more
50 Politics Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: 50 Classics Ser.
We live in politically charged times, but little of what we contend with today is new and much can be learned from history. 50 Politics Classics reveals the major writings of political leaders, philosophers, and activists, spanning over 2,000 years. With insightful commentaries on the texts and biograph ...Show more
84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
84, Charing Cross Road with introduction by Anne Bancroft. 'A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with [humankind].'
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul; Patrick Marnham (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the i ...Show more
A Bird in the Hand (#1 George and Molly Palmer-Jones) by Ann Cleeves
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
Originally published in 1986, A Bird in the Hand announced Ann Cleeves, now the bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series, as a brilliant new voice in contemporary crime fiction.Who could have known birdwatching was such a dangerous sport?Young Tom French has been found dead in a marsh ...Show more
A Book of Nonsense (Alma Quirky Classics) by Edward Lear
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Category: Poetry | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
"There was an Old Derry down Derry, Who loved to see little folks merry;So he made them a Book, And with laughter they shookAt the fun of that Derry down Derry." First published in 1846 under the pseudonym "Old Derry down Derry," A Book of Nonsense is a collection adapted from the limericks and illu ...Show more
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Category: Childrens | Series: Liberty Classics Ser.
The Handsome New Edition of the Classic Christmas Story with Brand-New Illustrations Follow along with stingy Ebenezer Scrooge as he encounters the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future in this handsome new edition of the classic A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens's original novel is now acc ...Show more
A Christmas Carol: A Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classic by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
The classic seasonal tale of self-discovery, with 80 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. This classic seasonal tale of self-discovery has become one of Charles Dickens's most famous and best-loved works. On Christmas Eve, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by the ghost of his former business p ...Show more