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Naomi by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
32.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation's cultural confusion. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to tra ...Show more
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Satre
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between the ...Show more
Our Gang by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gangis Philip Roth's brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth portrays an American president who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of ...Show more
Patrimony: a True Story by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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Professor of Desire by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Professor of Desire follows David Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a menage a trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York. Roth creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure: wh ...Show more
THE SOCCER WAR by KAPUSCINSKI RYSZARD
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Category: Travel | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteris ...Show more
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Begun while the author was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, this extraordinary and profound novel is widely regarded as one of the great works of 20th-century modernism. A work that is part historical novel and part prose poem, it recreates the last 18 hours on the life of Virgil, author of th ...Show more
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the b ...Show more
The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits-an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies-who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Manuscripts don't burn' This ribald, carnivalesque satire - featuring the Devil, true love and a gun-toting cat - was written in the darkest days of the Soviet Union and became an underground sensation.A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pock ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Influenced by Don Juanand the novels of Kafka, The Myth of Sisyphuspresents a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyrical eloquence, Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaf ...Show more
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
A young woman who has left the South, returns to New Orleans several years later when her father is dying. After his death, she and her young stepmother go back to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past and herself.