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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; Stella McNichol (Editor); Jenny Offill (Foreword by); Elaine Showalter (Introduction by, Notes by)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, featuring a foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation A Penguin Vitae Edition "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Elif Batuman (Foreword by); Sarah Blackwood (Introduction by); Laura Dluzynski Quinn (Notes by)
$65.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York's high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland. Countess Ellen Olenska is May's cousin, and wants a divorce from the Polish nobleman she married. Intelligent and beautiful, she comes back to New York where she tries to fit into the high so ...Show more
The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
When Kate Chopin's classic was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her death, The Awakening is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement and a celebrated work of ear ...Show more
The Color Purple by Alice Walker; Kiese Laymon (Foreword by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino.Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Alice Walker's iconic modern classic.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book ...Show more
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
Wharton's sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola A Penguin Vitae Edition Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of th ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Min Jin Lee (Introduction by); Philip McGowan (Notes by, Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life' Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his r ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James; Brandon Taylor (Foreword by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The New York Edition of the novel, accompanied by Michael Gorra's introduction and explanatory footnotes. * Background and contextual materials centering on James as a writer, The Portrait of a Lady in revision, and reviews of the novel by James's contemporar ...Show more
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway; Amor Towles (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, The Sun Also Rises introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1 ...Show more
The Yellow Wall-Paper and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Kate Bolick (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her chilli ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Hermione Lee (Introduction by); Virginia Woolf; Stella McNichol (Editor, Notes by); Patricia Lockwood (Foreword by)
$74.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
A beautiful edition of the groundbreaking classic novel, with a new introduction by award-winning writer Susan Choi "Without question one of the two or three finest novels of the twentieth century. Woolf comments on the most pressing dramas of our human predicament: war, mortality, family, love." -Rick ...Show more
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