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 George Orwell's novels about the dangers of tyranny, the corruption of the state and the enslavement of the individual are essential reading. In an era of doublespeak, they remain chillingly prophetic. Introductions by Charlotte Wood, 1984 and Don Watson, Animal Farm.
Title: 1984 & Animal Farm Author: ORWELL GEORGE Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 28/08/2017 Price: $24.00 RRP: $24.00 Imprint: Text Publishing Co Publisher: Text Publishing Co ISBN: 9781925603040 Available stock: 1 Price: $24.00
|  Initially serialized in the Pictorial Review in 1920, The Age of Innocence is a stylistic and intimate portrayal of upper class life in New York City during the Gilded Age.Lawyer and socialite Newland Archer is about to enter a loveless marriage with a well-to-do bride, when her cousin, the exotic Ellen Olenska, enters the picture. Olenska is stuck in a bad marriage with a Polish count, and Archer finds himself in the awkward position of persuading her to save her familys reputation by staying with her husband, even though Archer himself has fallen in love with her.Combining a romantic tragedy with artful descriptions of aristocratic life in New York City, Edith Whartons twelfth novel is now available as an elegantly designed clothbound edition with an elastic closure and a new introduction.
Title: Age of Innocence Author: WHARTON EDITH Series: Knickerbocker Classics Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 21/02/2018 Price: $23.00 RRP: $23.00 Imprint: Race Point Publisher: Race Point Publishing ISBN: 9781631065040 Available stock: 1 Price: $23.00
| 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' Drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm has neglected his livestock for too long. In a burst of insurgent fervour they rise up and he is deposed, with the pigs taking charge of the newly named Animal Farm. Everything runs smoothly, productivity soars, and all animals are well-fed and happy. But the further away the memory of the revolution, the more distant seem its ideals-and when Boxer the workhorse is betrayed, the horrifying extent of the pigs' corruption is revealed. Orwell's 'fairy story', a scathing satire of Soviet communism, is as potent now as it was in 1945. Animal Farm is one of literature's most electrifying examinations of power and corruption.
Title: Animal Farm Author: ORWELL GEORGE Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 02/01/2014 Price: $16.00 RRP: $16.00 Imprint: Penguin Books Publisher: Text Publishing Co ISBN: 9781922147738 Available stock: 2 Price: $16.00
|  'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War. Title: Animal Farm Author: ORWELL GEORGE Series: The Penguin English Library Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 07/06/2018 Price: $18.00 RRP: $18.00 Imprint: Penguin Books Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780241341667 Available stock: 1 Price: $18.00
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Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face of the corrupt Russian bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the aristocrat Konstantin Levin is struggling to reconcile reason with passion, espousing a Christian anarchism that Tolstoy himself believed in.
Title: Anna Karenina Author: TOLSTOY LEO Series: Alma Classics Evergreens Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 16/07/2014 Price: $15.00 RRP: $15.00 Imprint: Almabooks Publisher: Alma Books Ltd ISBN: 9781847493682 Available stock: 1 Price: $15.00
|  TRANSLATED BY LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE. Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it with that of Levin, an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials form the backdrop for a similar quest, Tolstoy creates a rich and complex masterpiece that has captured the imagination of readers for decades. The Vintage Classic Russians Series: Published for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, these are must-have, beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived controversy, censorship and suppression to influence decades of thought and artistic expression.
Title: Anna Karenina Author: TOLSTOY LEO Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series Format: Trade Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 05/01/2017 Price: $24.00 RRP: $24.00 Imprint: Vintage Publisher: Vintage Publishing ISBN: 9781784871956 Available stock: 1 Price: $24.00
| Title: Anne of Green Gables
Author: MONTGOMERY L M Year: 2017 Format: Hardback Publishing status: Active Price: $15.00 RRP: $15.00 Imprint: Collectors Library ISBN: 9781509828012 Available stock: 3 Price: $15.00
|  In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century since the world was devastated by nuclear war, but the blight of radioactivity and disease still gnaws away at the survivors. The expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite unprepared for the moral degradation they meet. They find that the current inhabitants of Los Angeles belong to a sadistic, devil-worshipping society obsessed with the mutations arising among them due to the radiation poisoning they have suffered. Ape and Essence is Huxley's vision of the ruin of humanity, and he treats it with all his moral indignation, his knowledge and his imaginative genius.
Title: Ape & Essence Author: HUXLEY ALDOUS Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 07/04/2005 Price: $13.00 RRP: $13.00 Imprint: Vintage Publisher: Vintage Publishing ISBN: 9780099477785 Available stock: 3 Price: $13.00
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 For more than 2,000 years, Sun Tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success, whether in battle, in business or in relationships. Now, in this crisp, accessible new translation, John Minford brings this seminal work to life for today's readers. A lively, learned introduction, chronologies and suggested further reading are among the valuable apparatus included in this authoritative volume. Even those readers familiar with The Art of War will experience it a new, finding it more fascinating - and more chilling - than ever. Little is known about Sun Tzu (544-496 B.C.) and his life during the Warring States period after the decline of the Zhou dysnasty, but his classic, The Art of War, has been one of the central works of Chinese literature for 2500 years. John Minford studied Chinese at Oxford and at the Australian National University and has taught in China, Hong Kong, and New Zealand.
He edited (with Geremie Barme) Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience and (with Joseph S. M. Lau) Chinese Classical Literature: An Anthology of Translations. He has translated numerous works from the Chinese, including the last two volumes of the Penguin Classics edition of Cao Xueqin's eighteenth-century novel The Story of the Stone and the martial-arts fiction of the contemporary Hong Kong novelist Louis Cha. Title: Art of War Author: SUN TZU Format: Hardback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 06/11/2014 Price: $30.00 RRP: $30.00 Imprint: Penguin Books Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141395845 Available stock: 1 Price: $30.00
|  "Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril." "The Art of War," by the Chinese general and philosopher Sun Tzu, is one of the most influential books of military strategy ever written. More than 2,000 years old, this classic of Chinese philosophy lays out a systematic, rational approach to tactics and strategy that leaders worldwide have applied not only to the military, but also to business, law, martial arts, and sports. This elegant hardcover gift edition uses Lionel Giles's classic translation and stands apart for its gorgeous design, fine Chinese illustrations, and affordable price. Giles's extensive annotations and commentary on Sun Tzu's aphorisms and proverbs are also included.
Title: Art of War Author: TZU SUN Format: Hardback Publishing status: Active Price: $40.00 RRP: $40.00 Imprint: Miscellaneous Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co Inc ISBN: 9781454911869 Available stock: 1 Price: $40.00
|  The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune. Anthony and his wife Gloria are young and gorgeous, rich and leisured, and dedicate their lives to the reckless pursuit of happiness. But this intimate story turns tragic, as their marriage disintegrates under the weight of their expectations, dissipation, jealousy and aimlessness. Fitzgerald skilfully portrays the east-coast elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all classes into what will soon be known as Cafe Society. As with all of Fitzgerald's novels, it is a brilliant character study written in breathtaking prose. It is also a gripping account of the complexities of marriage, largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship with his wife, Zelda. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Title: Beautiful & the Damned Author: FITZGERALD F SCOTT Series: Macmillan Collector's Library Format: Hardback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 08/09/2016 Price: $18.00 RRP: $18.00 Imprint: Macmillan Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781509826384 Available stock: 1 Price: $18.00
|  Title: Beautiful & the Damned
Author: FITZGERALD F SCOTT Format: Paperback Publishing status: Active Publication date: 21/01/2011 Price: $13.00 RRP: $13.00 Imprint: Vintage ISBN: 9780099541493 Available stock: 3 Price: $13.00
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