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The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form. This book comes with an introduction by Natalie Haynes. When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir's belief that 'On ...Show more
The Shadow-Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
The masterpiece of Joseph Conrad s later years, the autobiographical short novel "The Shadow-Line "depicts a young man at a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marks the shadow-line between youth and maturity.This brief but intense story is a dramatically fictionalized account of Conr ...Show more
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'In 1973 (Matthiessen) joined with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region called bharal. They also hoped to see the rare snow leopard, an almost mythical creature which Schaller once glimpsed on a previous visit. Matthiessen i ...Show more
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe.
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
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Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more
The Story of a Nutcracker by Sarah Ardizzone (Translator); Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
Discover the real story behind the famous Nutcracker Christmas ballet, as told by Alexandre Dumas 'How could you imagine, silly child, that this toy, which is made of cloth and wood, could possibly be alive?' The nutcracker doll that mysterious Godfather Drosselmeyer gives to little Marie for Christma ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Vintage Classics Bronte Series) by Anne Brontë
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Bronte Series
When the mysterious and beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours immediately begin to swirl around her. As her neighbour Gilbert Markham comes to discover, Helen has painful secrets buried in her past that even his love for her cannot easily overcome.
The Tenth Man by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
During World War II a group of men is held prisoner by the Germans, who determine that three of them must die. This is the story of how one of those men trades his wealth for his life--and lives to pay for his act in utterly unexpected ways.
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favourite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaption. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of D'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the Kings Muske ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in ma ...Show more
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.' In TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG, the l ...Show more
The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With the androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, this title takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.