The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
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Category: southern sky | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. Includes Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy and ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds
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Category: southern sky
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i ...Show more
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
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Category: southern sky | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social ...Show more
The Practical Australian Gardener by Peter Cundall
$35.00 NZD
Category: southern sky
How can you increase the yield of your tomatoes?What's the most effective way to raise seedlings?Which fertilizer is best?Since its publication in 1989, The Practical Australian Gardenerhas become a classic and Peter Cundall one of the country's most trusted advisers. This is the complete garden guide, ...Show more
Obernewtyn (#1 The Obernewtyn Chronicles) by Isobelle Carmody
$22.95 NZD
Category: southern sky | Series: The\Obernewtyn Chronicles
The Obernewtyn Chronicles - Book One For Elspeth Gordie freedom is-like so much else after the Great White-a memory. It was a time known as the Age of Chaos. In a final explosive flash everything was destroyed. The few who survived banded together and formed a Council for protection. But people like Els ...Show more
Wicked But Virtuous: My Life by Mirka Mora
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Category: southern sky
Few artists in Australia are held in such affectionate esteem as Mirka Mora. Even fewer have had such an amazing life. Narrowly avoiding Auschwitz during the Second World War, she and her husband Georges settled in Melbourne, where their landmark cafe-restaurants became a magnet for artists, writers and ...Show more
History of the Peloponnesian War by THUCYDIDES
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Category: southern sky | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Translated by Rx Warner. Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c. 460-400 BC) was an Athenian and a ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
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Category: southern sky | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave th ...Show more
Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
$19.95 NZD
Category: southern sky | Series: Puffin Bks.
For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it's just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it's her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn't be any stricter--but that doesn't seem to stop all kinds of men from coming into her life. Caught between the old-world values o ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: southern sky | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more
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