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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
Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson; Denise Chávez (Introduction by); Denise Chávez (Introduction by)
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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
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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
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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.
Sp The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
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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
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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 Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky; David Magarshack (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
After a brief military career, the illustrious Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky quickly turned to writing as a profession with the publication of his first novel, "Poor Folk," in 1846. This novel sparked a literary career that would eventually cement Dostoyevsky's reputation as one of the greatest nove ...Show more
The City of God by Marcus Dods (Translator); Thomas Merton (Introduction by); St. St. Augustine
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
One of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern Western society and the origin of most Western thought. Contrasting earthly and heavenly cities--representing the omnipresent struggle between good and ...Show more
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
"I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me."--"The Comedy of Errors" Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this raucous story of mistaken identity and family--along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including - an original In ...Show more
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The story of an endearing, unlikely friendship set against the backdrop of a remote and beautiful Maine coastal town, The Country of the Pointed Firs is one of Sarah Orne Jewett's most loved works, and it quickly earned her a reputation as a talented writer upon its publication. Praised by Alice Brown f ...Show more