The Madonna of Excelsior
The background is the notorious 1971 case in which nineteen citizens of Excelsior in the Free State were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sex between black and white. In an extraordinary alchemy of words into art, Mda tells the story of a family at the heart of a scandal - of Niki, the fallen madonna, Popi, her daughter by an eminent white citizen of the town, and Viliki, the betrayed son, and of how they come to terms with the repercussions and find resolution in surprising ways.
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Ways of Dying
Toloki is an eccentric and dignified professional mourner. Ways of Dying tells of his odyssey from a rural community to the vibrant outskirts of a contemporary South African city, where the beautiful and tragic Noria helps him to heal the past.
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The Heart of Redness
In the mid-nineteenth century, in the Eastern Cape village of Qolorha, a young girl called Nongqawuse brought a message from the ancestors to the amaXhosa people. It was that all their cattle should be slaughtered, and their fields not be cultivated.
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Selected Stories
'I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield's work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Elizabeth Bowen all praised her stories, and her early death at the age of thirty-four cut short one of the finest short-story writers in the English language.
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The Complete Short Stories
'Wilde did not converse - he told tales.'

Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s.
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Evolutionary Writings – Including the Autobiographies
'Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin'

On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate.
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Robinson Crusoe
'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master'

Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island.
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King Solomon's Mines
A thrilling search for a missing man amidst the scorching deserts and perilous mountains of Africa. In 1885, H. Rider Haggard's publisher considered King Solomon's Mines 'the most amazing book ever written.
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Gulliver's Travels
'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line
Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.
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Kim
Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O'Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road.
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Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context)
Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, devastating plague, the peasants' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. Compact and comprehensive, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which works such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde sprang, and shows how these and other works manifest that society in fictional form.
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Price: R165
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