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Other People's Thoughts by Simon Leys
19.95 AUD
Category: Reference
"Most people are other people", Oscar Wilde remarked, "their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life a mimicry, their passions a quotation . . . "Other People's Thoughtsis a wonderfully entertaining collection of quotations. Simon Leys collects jokes and insights from great artists and thinkers ...Show more
Prosper: A Voyage at Sea: Short Black 8 by Simon Leys
6.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
A big liner, brightly lit, passes us one or two cable-lengths ahead. 'Ow They are guzzling champagne but cannot see what's in front of them ' grumbles Etienne, who has the helm and puts Prosper back on course. Our wooden boat, which one long wave can carry, is a mere cork in the wake of that ship, which ...Show more
The Death of Napoleon (PB) by Simon Leys
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
As he bore a vague resemblance to the Emperor, the sailors on board the Hermann-Augustus Stoeffer had nicknamed him Napoleon. And so, for convenience, that is what we shall call him. Besides, he was Napoleon. . . . Napoleon has escaped from St. Helena, leaving a double behind him. Now disguised as t ...Show more
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