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Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often starting territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontel ...Show more
BRENDAN VOYAGE by SEVERIN T
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Modern Library Exploration Ser.
Could an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medieval text of St. Brendan, award-winning adventure writer Tim Severin painstakingly researched and built ...Show more
Cotter's England by Christina Stead
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
Cotters' England follows the lives of Nellie Cook, sister Peggy Cotter and brother Tom. Set in post-war England, it is a study of politics and betrayal in Nellie's professional and personal life. It is a story of smothered aspirations and dashed hopes, as class politics trap the Cotters and stifle their ...Show more
Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
$26.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Bks.
" More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNEHistorian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to lif ...Show more
King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
King Lear is Shakespeare's bleakest and profoundest tragedy, a searing dramatization of humankind at the edge of apocalypse that explores the family and the nature of being with passion, poetry, and dark humor. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today's most acco ...Show more
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
$25.99 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
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Modern Library
Offers biographies of Greek and Roman leaders and compares their personal qualities and accomplishments.
PLUTARCH'S LIVES VOL 1 by Plutarch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | 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.
Seven Poor Men of Sydney by Christina Stead
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
Originally published in 1934, Seven Poor Men of Sydney is Christina Stead's first novel, a brilliant portrayal of a group of men and women living in Sydney in the 1920s amid conditions of poverty and social turmoil. Set against the vividly drawn backgrounds of Fisherman's (Watson's) Bay and the innercit ...Show more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals t ...Show more
The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
Originally scribbled in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys's quotidian journal of life in Restoration London provides an astonishingly frank and diverting account of political intrigues; naval, church, and cultural affairs; and the sexual escapades and domestic strife of a man with a voracious, childlike appeti ...Show more
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for one another. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watches in bleak despair, knowing the bitter reality that lies just below his mad visions. A chilling novel of the relations bet ...Show more