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Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden by Eleanor Perenyi
$42.00 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Modern Library
An original and elegnt blend of historical and literary gardening lore, personal opinion and extensive experience with all facets fo life in the garden.
Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoi; Alymer Maude (Notes by, Translator); Azar Nafisi (Introduction by)
$27.00 AUD
Category: FEATURED ON INSTAGRAM | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Tolstoy's novella blends fiction and historical fact to portray a legendary Avar chieftain who switched sides in the nineteenth-century Russo-Caucasian war. Inspired by the author's military service, Hadji Murád offers riveting views of warfare and treason, murder and vengeance, and behind-the-scenes po ...Show more
Hell's Angels : A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson
$41.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Modern Library
In Search of Lost Time #1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Swann's Way is the first part of the saga In Search of Lost Time by a classic of theFrench literature Marcel Proust.Back in the day, this book confused the most sympathetic readers and critics,because at the first sight, it was an unsuccessful autobiographic novel that waschronologically complicated and ...Show more
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by W. B. Yeats; Paul Muldoon (Preface by)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stori ...Show more
Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis; Charles Johnson (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
A neglected tour de force by the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature, Kingsblood Royal is a stirring & wickedly funny portrait of a man who resigns from the white race. When Neil Kingsblood a typical middle-American banker with a comfortable life makes the shocking discovery that he ...Show more
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac; Kathleen Raine (Translator); Richard Howard (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
"Balzac was] the master unequalled in the art of painting humanity as it exists in modern society," wrote George Sand. "He searched and dared everything." Written between 1837 and 1843, Lost Illusions reveals, perhaps better than any other of Balzac's ninety-two novels, the nature and scope of his geniu ...Show more
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets and Other New York Writings by Stephen Crane; Luc Sante (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
This harrowing tale of a young girl in the slums is a searing portrayal of turn-of-the-century New York, and Stephen Crane's most innovative work. Published in 1893, when the author was just twenty-one, it broke new ground with its vivid characters, its brutal naturalism, and its empathic rendering of t ...Show more
Monk by Matthew Lewis
$39.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library
This edition is set from the 1796 first edition and includes newly commissioned endnotes. The introduction for "Monk" is given by Hugh Thomas.
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir; Mike Davis (Introduction by); Herbert W. Gleason (Photographer)
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
My First Summer In The Sierra is a book written by John Muir and published in 1917. The book is a personal account of Muir's experiences during his first summer in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California in 1869. The book is divided into several chapters, each of which describes a different aspect of ...Show more
My Summer in a Garden by Charles Dudley Warner
$38.00 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Modern Library
The only available edition of a ninteenth-century classic of garden writing that wryly conveys a uniquely American philosophy of gardening and the natural world.
Old Herbaceous - A Novel of the Garden by Reginald Arkell; Penelope Hobhouse (Introduction by)
$31.00 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Modern Library Gardening Ser.
Back in print after fifty years Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse's immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer than the ot ...Show more