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Augustus - A Novel by John Williams
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs. A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is mu ...Show more
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is by the author of Stoner. Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living. In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Color ...Show more
English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems by John Williams
32.99 AUD
39.99 (17% off)
Category: Poetry
Not just English poetry but poetry in English as we know it today was largely invented in England between the beginning of the sixteenth century and 1630. For many years much of the poetry from the era was seen as half baked, undeveloped, little more than a run-up to Shakespeare. From the point of view ...Show more
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland; Richard Terry (Editor); Helen Williams (Editor)
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure has been described as the first erotic novel in English and is perhaps the greatest example of the genre. From the outset it was mired in disrepute. Cleland penned the novel to liberate himself from debtors' prison, and the book's manifestly lewd content led ...Show more
Nothing but the Night by John Williams
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Author of "Stoner"
Arthur Maxley is a tense and listless young man. One day he receives a letter from his long estranged father. Arthur's fear and aversion to the man is powerful, yet his compulsion to see his father is irresistible. After their meeting, Arthur is propelled into a night of drinking and spontaneous intimac ...Show more
Nothing but the Night by John Williams
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Stoner author John Williams's first novelis a searing look ata man's relationship with his absent father, and how early trauma manifests throughout one's life John Williams's first novel is a brooding psychological noir. Arthur Maxley is a young man at the end of his emotional rope. Having dropped o ...Show more
Stoner by WILLIAMS JOHN EDWARD
23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the ...Show more
Stoner: 50th Anniversary Edition by Professor of History of Art John Williams (RUTGERS UNIV NEW BRUNSWICK Australian Food Security Institute, Victoria Australian Food Security Institute, Victoria University of Cambridge RUTGERS UNIV NEW BRUNSWICK RUTGERS UNIV NEW BRUNSWICK RUTGERS UNIV NEW BRUNSWICK RUTGERS UNIV NEW BRUNSWICK)
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The critic Morris Dickstein has said that John Williams s "Stoner" is something much rarer than a great novel it is a perfect novel, and in the last decade this austere and deeply moving tale of a Midwestern college professor has been embraced by readers all over the world. Here, to commemorate the fift ...Show more
Stoner: A Novel by John Williams
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet publication in the US, Stoner is finally finding the ...Show more
Stoner (Vintage Classics) by John Williams
36.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A beautiful hardback edition of the greatest rediscovered classic of recent yearsWilliam Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries th ...Show more
The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams
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Category: Fiction
Rediscover the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postwar Black intellectuals and artists, with a foreword by Ishmael Reed and a new introduction by Merve Emre about how this explosive novel laid bare America's racial fault lines.
The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness by Mark Williams; John Teasdale; Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn
39.99 AUD
Category: Meditation & Yoga | Reading Level: very good
If you've ever struggled with depression, take heart. Mindfulness, a simple yet powerful way of paying attention to your most difficult emotions and life experiences, can help you break the cycle of chronic unhappiness once and for all. In The Mindful Way through Depression, four uniquely qualified exp ...Show more