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Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights by Robinson
$32.95 AUD
Category: Everyman's Library Children's Classics | Series: Everyman's library children's classics
For the past two hundred years, Western readers, young and old alike, have been transported to the fabulous Orient by means of these remarkable stories, in which the everyday mingles on an equal footing with the uncanny and the miraculous. Accompanying the text are illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, wh ...Show more
Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion by Andrew Robinson
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
An updated edition of this acclaimed book, now with a new preface and published to tie in with the bicentenary of Champollion's breakthrough in 1822.Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Jean-François Champollion, the impoverished, arrogant and brilliant child of the French Rev ...Show more
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hachette Essentials
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDIn 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son: 'I told you last night that I might be gone sometime . . . You reached up and put your fingers on my lips and gave me that look I ...Show more
Gilead - A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, Gilead is the long-hoped-for second novel by Marilynne Robinson, one of our finest writers--a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part. In 1 ...Show more
Home - A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009A 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEA New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year Hailed as incandescent, magnificen ...Show more
Housekeeping: Faber Modern Classics by Marilynne Robinson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, "Housekeeping" is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of the ...Show more
Housekeeping (Fortieth Anniversary Edition) - A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"[Narrator Therese] Plummer's talented performance is both illuminating and poignant." -- AudioFile Magazine Winner of the Pen/Hemingway AwardFortieth Anniversary EditionThis program includes a bonus conversation with the author. A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping is the story ...Show more
India: A Short History by Andrew Robinson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought
In ten incisive chapters Andrew Robinson provides a clear focus to each segment of the unfolding story of Indian history, from the remarkable cities of the Indus Valley civilization four millennia ago to the Hindu dynasties, from the Mughal Empire to the British Raj, and from Indian independence to the ...Show more
Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives by Chase F. Robinson
$22.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought
The religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers of the early Muslim world helped to shape the 1,400-year-long development of today's secondlargest world religion. But who were these people? What do we know of their lives, and the ways in which they influenced their societ ...Show more
Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives "The First 1,000 Years" by Chase F. Robinson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought
The religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers of the early Muslim world helped to shape the 1,400-year-long development of today's second-largest world religion. But who were these people? What do we know of their lives, and the ways in which they influenced their socie ...Show more
Jack US Edition by Robinson Marilynne
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST OF THE YEAR BY: NPR, TIME, ESQUIRE, THE GUARDIAN, LIT HUB, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. With the sublime Jack, [Marilynne Robinson] resumes and deepen ...Show more
Lila - A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and HousekeepingMarilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder.Lila, homeless and alone a ...Show more