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Out of Africa by DINESEN, ISAK
$43.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library
In Out of Africa, author Isak Dinesen takes a wistful and nostalgic look back on her years living in Africa on a Kenyan coffee plantation. Recalling the lives of friends and neighbours--both African and European--Dinesen provides a first-hand perspective of colonial Africa. Through her obvious love of b ...Show more
Passing by Nella Larsen
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library
This book includes a new foreword by Mae Henderson and an introduction by Ntozake Shange. It also includes commentary, notes and a reading group guide.
Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Modern Library
A series of letters to a writer seeking guidance revealing the thoughts and feelings of one of the greatest poets and most distinctive sensibilites of the 20th century.
Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson; Denise Chávez (Introduction by); Denise Chávez (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The orphaned daughter of a Scottish merchant and his Native American bride, Ramona grows up in the southern California of the nineteenth century, a golden land of old Spanish missions and sprawling ranches. Ramona's mixed-race ancestry and marriage to a Native American make her a target for bigotry and ...Show more
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics
Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, "combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture," "Riders of the Purple Sage" is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, ...Show more
Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Modern Library Classics
An edition of Emerson's writings in trade paper format, with an introduction by the poet Mary Oliver.
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | 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.
Sp The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the author of the Father Brown stories should tell a detective story like no-one else. On this level, ther ...Show more
Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of "War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, " and "Anna Karenina, " which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to "The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, " a collection of thirty of Chekhov' ...Show more
Taras Bulba by GOGOL NIKOLAI
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The First New Translation in Forty YearsSet sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol's epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba's two sons.As Robert Kaplan writ ...Show more
Tarzan of the Apes by RICE BURROUGHS
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, TARZAN OF THE APES remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, is 'the best known character in th ...Show more
The American Gardener by William Cobbett; Verlyn Klinkenborg (Introduction by)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Modern Library Gardening Ser.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally importa ...Show more