Australian Love Stories (Short Stories) by Cate Kennedy
$28.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
There are imaginary lovers, unattainable lovers, star-crossed lovers and predestined lovers. There is straight love, same sex love and some very curious love. And Love's attendants - cupid, lust, obsession, and betrayal - dance through this volume that contributes to the growing tradition of Australian ...Show more
Best Australian Poems 2014 by Geoff Page
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
'From London, some ten years ago, Clive James opined that we are living in "a golden age of Australian poetry." The quality of work between these covers suggests that Clive might still be right.' -Geoff Page In The Best Australian Poems 2014, award-winning poet Geoff Page compiles an anthology that ...Show more
The First Dismissal by Luke Slattery
$9.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Penguin Specials
While violent revolution and social upheaval rocked Europe, far away in New South Wales, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was sowing the seeds for the Australian idea of the 'fair go'. Macquarie was a reformer and an emancipator. He believed that a person's worth - be they gentry, infantry or convict - lay in ...Show more
Griffith Review 48: Enduring Legacies by Julianne Schultz
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Griffith REVIEW
'As a civil, pluralistic, liberal and democratic society, Australia did not pass the test of the crisis brought about by the war in Europe. The country suffered a setback in its political culture from which it did not recover until long after the next world war.' Gerhard Fische In the year that marks th ...Show more
When the Facts Change by Tony Judt
$65.00 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and Thinking the Twentieth Century, spanning a career of extraordinary intellectual engagement. Edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans. Tony Judt's first collection of essays, Re ...Show more
Macbeth (Arden Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: The Arden Shakespeare
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied tragedies. This major new Arden edition offers students detailed on-page commentary notes highlighting meaning and theatrical ideas and themes, as well as an illustrated, lengthy introduction setting the play in its historical, theatrical and cr ...Show more
Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow: Short Black 12 by Galarrwuy Yunupingu
$6.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Short Blacks
I will continue my work on my land, building a future. It is the only thing that is certain to me now and I want to advance while I can. I am trying to light the fire in our young men and women. We are setting fires to our own lives as we really should, and the flame will burn and intensify - an immense ...Show more
Now Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism, and Creative Nonfiction Exercises Fom Todays Best Writers and Teachers by Sherry Ellis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
An essential handbook for nonfiction writers, featuring the trusted personal writing exercises of today's masters of creative non-fiction, including Gay Talese, Reza Aslan, John Matteson, Tilar Mazzeo, and many more! Beginners and seasoned writers alike will relish the opportunity to use the top-notch ...Show more
Best Australian Essays 2015 by Geordie Williamson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
In The Best Australian Essays 2015, Geordie Williamson compiles the year's outstanding short non-fiction. Read Helen Garner on condescension, DBC Pierre on travel, Ceridwen Dovey on autobiography, Tim Winton on injury, Anna Krien on first love, and Nicolas Rothwell on the northern coast. With bracing es ...Show more
Macbeth (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
$15.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: No Fear Shakespeare Ser.
This tragedy tells of a power-hungry Scottish nobleman and his lady, and the price they pay for violently seizing the royal throne. Books in this new, illustrated series present complete texts of Shakespeare's plays. However, the lines are set up so students can see the bard's original poetic phrases pr ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 61: Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal. by George Megalogenis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Australia is in transition. Saying it is easy. The panic kicks in when we are compelled to describe what the future might look like. There is no complacent middle to aim at. We will either catch the next wave of prosperity, or finally succumb to the Great Recession. What has gone wrong with our politics ...Show more
PLUTARCH'S LIVES VOL 1 by Plutarch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Modern Library
The brilliant social history of the Greek and Roman world, "Lives" is Plutarch's best known work, translated by Dryden. It is edited with a foreword by Arthur Hugh Clough and a new introduction by James Atlas.