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A Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Charles Dickens; John Irving (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
An immediate bestseller when it was first published in December 1843, A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial Yuletide favorite. Charles Dickens's beloved tale about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who comes to know the meaning of kindness, charity, and goodwill through a haunting Christma ...Show more
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
$32.00 AUD
Category: Christmas | Series: Modern Library
Truman Capote's boyhood Christmas memoir, rereleased with a beautiful new packaging and a CD.The classic story of Truman Capote's childhood Christmas ritual is more endearing than ever in this newly redesigned package. The classic story of Truman Capote's childhood Christmas ritual is more endearing th ...Show more
A Hazard of New Fortunes by Everett Carter (Introduction by); William Dean Howells; Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Centering on a conflict between a self-made millionaire and an idealistic reformer in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York, A Hazard of New Fortunes insightfully renders the complexities of the American experience at a time of great social and economic upheaval and transformation. In its depiction of ...Show more
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics
Concerned for her family's financial welfare and eager to expand her own horizons, Agnes Grey takes up the position of governess, the only respectable employment for an unmarried woman in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, Agnes cannot anticipate the hardship, humiliation, and loneliness that await ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library
Austerlitz by W G Sebald
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald's celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. "Austerlitz" is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a "Kindertransport" in the summer of 1939 ...Show more
Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Chekhov: the Essential Plays - The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and the Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov; Michael Heim (Translator)
$26.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Because Chekhov's plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly ...Show more
Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth by Leo Tolstoy; Michael Scammell (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Leo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, was written when he was in his twenties, offering a tantalizing first glimpse of the literary talents that would come to fruition in his later masterpieces. Chronicling the experiences of a wealthy landowner's son as he g ...Show more
Compete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats by John Keats
$34.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Modern Library
The complete collection of poems and a selection of the most important letters of the wildly imaginativve romanic poet, with a new introduction by National Book Critics Circle award winning poet, Edward Hirsh
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy; Margaret Drabble (Introduction by)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
'I cannot allow any man to - to criticize my private conduct!' Young, attractive and impetuous, Bathsheba has inherited a farm and is determined to be as independent as possible. Her natural beauty is a magnet for men; how will she choose between them? Gabriel Oak is a young farmer, just set up in busin ...Show more
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories by Thompson Hunter S
$43.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Modern Library
A book about the world of drugs in Las Vegas. "The best book on the dope decade." -- "NY Times Book Review"