Melbourne Masterclass: 10 Great Books 2023

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Antigone and other Tragedies: Antigone, Deianeira, Electra

Sophocles

These original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles’ poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and…

$11.99

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My Brilliant Career: Text Classics

Miles Franklin

This is not a romance–I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither…

$14.95

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The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

A student from Boston wins a guest editorship on a national magazine, and finds a new world at her feet. Her New York life is crowded with possibilities, so the…

$24.99

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To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee

‘Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a write with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humor. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable’…

$14.99

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The Transit of Venus

Shirley Hazzard

The Transit of Venus is a 1980 novel written by Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It won the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award.  

$22.99

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Benang: From the Heart

Kim Scott

I tell you that this story of my own is part of a much older story… one of a perpetual billowing from the sea, with its rhythm of return, return…

$26.95

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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Synopsis coming soon…….

$26.99

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead

The most graceful English translation of this masterpiece of world literature - prepared with the participation of the Dalai Lama and eminent contemporary masters of this tradition appointed by the…

$24.99

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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer…

$19.99

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Remembering Babylon

David Malouf

In the 1840s, a ship’s boy cast ashore in northern Australia is taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new…

$14.99

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