(Paperback)
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN: 9780140442335
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1983
UK Publication Date: 28th October 1982
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Molly Williams
ISBN: 9781524886370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 13th March 2025
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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An elegantly illustrated celebration of Jane Austens life and literature as told through the flowers, plants, and landscapes that inspired her.
(Paperback)
By: Joan Didion
ISBN: 9781685890117
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2022
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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(Paperback, Second edition)
By: Juvenal
ISBN: 9780906515037
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This introduction to three of Juvenal's satires aims to help intermediate high school or college readers understand the meaning of Juvenal's Latin. Satire I is an explanation of why he writes poetry and satire. III discusses why life in Rome has become intolerable. X aims to explain why most prayers are misguided and, if answered, harmful.
(Paperback)
By: Alain Danilou
ISBN: 9780892815258
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1993
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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This edition of the definitive modern translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra is the first to include two essential commentaries--the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and the modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Danielou spent four years comparing versions of the Kama Sutra, drawing on his intimate experience of India to preserve the full explicitness of the original.
By: Gillian Boddy
ISBN: 9780864732972
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2000
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Julian Barnes
ISBN: 9781787332898
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The updated edition of Julian Barnes best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays
Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation.
(Paperback)
By: Marie O'Rourke
ISBN: 9781760992644
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Fremantle Press
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(Paperback)
By: Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 9781529111996
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Gerald Murnane
ISBN: 9781925818840
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co
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(Paperback)
By: J. M. Coetzee
ISBN: 9781922330406
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Text Publishing
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The final volume of Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzees essays on celebrated writers.
(Paperback)
By: Thomas Malory
ISBN: 9780140430431
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2004
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents an evocative version of the Arthurian legend. This book describes Arthur's ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guenever, the treachery of Morgan le Fay and the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Thomas Malory
ISBN: 9780140430448
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2004
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents the adventures of Sir Tristram de Liones and the treachery of Sir Mordred, and follows Sir Launcelot's quest for The Holy Grail, his fatally divided loyalties, and his forbidden love for the beautiful Queen Guenever. This book weaves a story of adultery, treachery and ultimately - in its tragic finale - death.
(Paperback)
By: Joan Didion
ISBN: 9780008451783
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion.
(Paperback)
By: D. H. Lawrence
ISBN: 9780241344606
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Jenny Slate
ISBN: 9780349127491
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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(Paperback)
By: Livy
ISBN: 9780862922962
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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School edition of the Latin text with English Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary.
(, UK ed.)
By: Charles D'Ambrosio
ISBN: 9781922182593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Text Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Stendhal
ISBN: 9780140443073
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1976
UK Publication Date: 28th August 1975
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 1818, when Stendhal was in his mid-thirties, he met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She, however, was quick to make it clear that she did not return his affections, and in his despair he turned to the written word to exorcise his love and explain his feelings.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Lysias
ISBN: 9781853994470
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Lysias was one of the exponents of the art of speech-writing in late fifth- and early fourth-century Athens. These five examples of his work cover a range of cases and offer an insight into Athenian society.
(Paperback)
By: Leslie Jamison
ISBN: 9781783781560
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: Granta Books
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From the author of The Empathy Exams comes a profound meditation on isolation, longing and the conflicts faced by all those who choose to tell true stories about the lives of others.
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By: Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN: 9780141036687
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual's 'will to power'.
(Paperback)
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN: 9780140447200
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1998
UK Publication Date: 27th August 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Reveals some of the author's deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, and his reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work.
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By: Jonathan Green
ISBN: 9780522873696
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Think of an Australian writer and chances are that at some time or another they've had short fiction published in Meanjin. For the first time a treasure trove of this writing leaps from the pages of Meanjin into a book of fine fiction.
