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Klondike Tales by Christopher Gary (INT); Gair Jack; Kinder London
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics
Letty Fox by Christina Stead
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
In this classic novel by Christina Stead, published here with an introduction by Carmen Callil, Letty Fox tells her story as a self-styled woman in New York's world of passion, love and sexual bargaining. As a bright, uninhibited daughter of a middle class couple who believes the world is her oyster, Le ...Show more
Life Stories - Profiles from The New Yorker by David Remnick
$26.95 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
a Dazzling collection of biographical profiles of some of the most important and most captivating figures of our century.
Light in August by William Faulkner; C. E. Morgan (Foreword by); William Faulkner
$39.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels Ser.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme- the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God- ...Show more
Living with Music - Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings by Ralph Ellison; Robert O'Meally (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Before Ralph Ellison became one of America s greatest writers, he was a musician and a student of jazz, writing widely on his favorite music for more than fifty years. Now, jazz authority Robert O Meally has collected the very best of Ellison s inspired, exuberant jazz writings in this unique anthology. ...Show more
MOD LIB THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER THE GRE by PLUTARCH
$17.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty- year- old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father's empire through- out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, ful?lling the soothsayer Aristander's prediction that the new king ...Show more
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics | Reading Level: very good
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus's insights and advice - on everything from living in the world to ...Show more
PLUTARCH S LIVES Vol 2 by Plutarch
$44.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
Offers biographies of Greek and Roman leaders and compares their personal qualities and accomplishments.
PLUTARCH'S LIVES VOL 1 by Plutarch
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
The brilliant social history of the Greek and Roman world, "Lives" is Plutarch's best known work, translated by Dryden. It is edited with a foreword by Arthur Hugh Clough and a new introduction by James Atlas.
Red and the Black by Stendhal; Burton Raffel (Translator); Diane Johnson (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The Red and the Black, Stendhal's masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorel's quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters along the way ...Show more
Secret Ingredients - The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink by David Remnick (ed.)
$37.00 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
In this indispensable collection, "The New Yorker" dishes up a feast of delicious food writing--food and drink memoirs, short stories, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons.
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
$23.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Modern Library
Includes over 400 of Dickinson's poems, expressing her ideas on love, life, and nature, that were published after her death in 1886.