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Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier; Sarah Perry (Introduction by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. Fo ...Show more
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more
Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby by Vera Brittain
$31.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics
In her bestselling first volume of autobiography, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonising years of the First World War, lamenting the destruction of a generation which for her included those she most dearly loved - her lover, her brother, her closest friends. In Testament o ...Show more
The Bay Of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
$22.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place. Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama waits her there. She has an introduction to a Neapolitan woman, and one ...Show more
The Group by Mary McCarthy
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost continually brilliant' COSMOPOLITAN'A brilliant novel: honest, engaging and sharp as a tack' SARAH WATERS'Lively, vivid and exceedingly entertaining' SUNDAY TIMESThis groundbreaking novel celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2023. One of the first novels to frankly depi ...Show more
The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his biochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th cent ...Show more
The Sadeian Woman - Virago 50th Anniversary Edition by Angela Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gender | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'The tone is one of intellectual relish ... rational ... refined ... witty' NEW STATESMAN'Her work is funny, sexy, frightening and brutal' EDMUND GORDON, GUARDIAN 'Angela Carter liked to blur boundaries and break rules' GABY WOOD, INDEPENDENT'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosophe ...Show more
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
$16.45 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
The Story of the Amulet (Psammead #3) by Edith Nesbit
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Psammead Series, Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Transit Of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparent ...Show more
The Women's Room by Marilyn French
$30.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics
A landmark in feminist literature, THE WOMEN'S ROOM is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with profound resonance today, this is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted blindly and revered so completely. Today's de ...Show more
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Gilman, is a highly celebrated and academic description of one of the most friendly doers on the planet. This work is considered an important morning task in feminist literature and one that explored questions about the beauty of the lady, both physical and mental. It ...Show more