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Things Fall Apart #1 African Trilogy

By: Chinua Achebe

Price: $19.95

Publisher: UK, Penguin : 2006

Seller ID: 9780141023380

ISBN-13: 9780141023380

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, Okonowo takes violent action. Will the great man's dangerous pride eventually destroy him? About the Author: Born in 1930, Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe is probably black Africa's most widely read novelist. His first ...
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The Great Gatsby [penguin modern classics]

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Price: $14.95

Publisher: UK, Penguin : 2000

Seller ID: 9780141182636

ISBN-13: 9780141182636

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald recreates the universal conflict between illusion and reality. 'A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel.' John Carey, Sunday Times, Books of the Century. About the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University, which he left in 1917 to ...
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Animal Farm [penguin modern classics]

By: George Orwell

Price: $19.95

Publisher: UK, Penguin : 2000

Seller ID: 9780141182704

ISBN-13: 9780141182704

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

'All animals are equal - but some 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. 'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the exce...
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Of Mice and Men [penguin modern classics]

By: John Steinbeck

Price: $19.95

Publisher: UK, Penguin : 2000

Seller ID: 9780141185101

ISBN-13: 9780141185101

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy - becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes of friendship and shared vision, and giving a voice to America's lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men remains Steinbeck's most popular work, achieving ...
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The Pearl [penguin modern classics]

By: John Steinbeck

Price: $19.95

Publisher: UK, Penguin : 2000

Seller ID: 9780141185125

ISBN-13: 9780141185125

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

From the author of Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck's The Pearl is a flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring, published with an introduction by Linda Wagner-Martin and drawings by Jose Clemente Orozco in Penguin Modern Classics.When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Written with haunting s...
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Saint Death

By: Marcus Sedgwick

Price: $16.95

Publisher: UK, Orion : 2017

Seller ID: 9781444011258

ISBN-13: 9781444011258

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

A potent, powerful and timely thriller about migrants, drug lords and gang warfare set on the US/Mexican border by PRINTZ MEDAL winning and CARNEGIE MEDAL, COSTA BOOK AWARD and GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE shortlisted novelist, Marcus Sedgwick. Anapra is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the Mexican city of Juarez - twenty metres outside town lies a fence, and beyond it, America - the dangerous goal of many a migrant. Faustino is one such trying to escape from the gang he's been working for. He's dipped into a pile of dollars he was supposed to be hiding and now he's on the run. He and...
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Looking For Alibrandi

By: Melina Marchetta

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Australia, Puffin : 1992

Seller ID: 9780140360462

ISBN-13: 9780140360462

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Melina Marchetta's stunning debut novel Looking for Alibrandi is one girl's story of her final year at school, a year she sets herself free. Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen and in her final year at a wealthy girls' school. This is the year she meets her father, the year she falls in love, the year she searches for Alibrandi and finds the real truth about her family - and the identity she has been searching for. A moving and revealing book, unusual for its honesty and its insight into the life of a young person on the brink of adulthood. Multi-award-winning, a bestseller and made into an award...
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Lord of the Flies : Educational Edition with revised and updated study notes

By: William Golding

Price: $19.95

Publisher: UK, Faber : 2013

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 9780571295715

ISBN-13: 9780571295715

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

A new educational edition, fully revised and updated with new material, and featuring artwork by the winner of the Faber/Guardian illustration competition. Lord of the Flies is a novel that has captivated schoolchildren ever since it was first published in 1954. A teacher himself, Golding clearly understood what excites and interests children. It is not only a gripping story, with strong, sympathetic characters, but it also raises timeless and profound questions. Part of its lasting appeal, particularly in schools, surely arises from the way it tackles universal issues.The novel is a catalyst...
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