Babel - Around the World in 20 Languages by Gaston Dorren
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Category: Classics
If you were to master the twenty languages discussed in Babel, you could talk with three quarters of the world's population. But what makes these languages stand out amid the world's estimated 6,500 tongues?Gaston Dorren delves deep into the linguistic oddities and extraordinary stories of these diverse ...Show more
Awkword Moments - A Lively Guide to the 100 Terms Smart People Should Know by Ross Petras; Kathryn Petras
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Category: Classics
A compendium of 100 words and phrases smart people use--even if they only kinda sorta (secretly don't) know what they mean--with pithy definitions and fascinating etymologies to solidify their meanings. Your boss makes a joke about Schrodinger's cat--which is something you've heard of but you're a lit ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look cover for Orwell's timeless satire. 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs ...Show more
A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (HB) by Steve Mockus (Editor); Francis Grose
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Category: Classics
A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is a profane guide to the slang from the backstreets and taverns of 18th-century London. This slang dictionary gathers the most amusing and useful terms from English history and helpfully presents them to be used in the conversations of our modern day. O ...Show more
A Fortunate Life by A B Facey
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Category: Classics
First sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer, farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then being rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy. He survived Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, lost a son in the Second World War ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Collins Classics) by D H Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley's marriage to Sir Clifford, an aristocratic and an intellectual who is paralyze ...Show more
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Classics
Spring Snow is the first book of Mishima’s masterpiece tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. The novel is set in Tokyo in 1912, in the closed circles of the imperial court and the ancient aristocracy, a world beginning to be breached by newcomers, the rich provincial families whose money and vitality makes t ...Show more