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The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
This new edition combines Tolstoy's most famous short tale, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, Master and Man, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In Ivan Ilyich, a bureaucrat looks back over his li ...Show more
The Duel by CHEKHOV ANTON
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
About This Book"Hate you " Laevsky said quietly, breathing heavily. "I've hated you a long time " This new translation of the literary masterpiece-- which combines a beautiful romance with high suspense-- is here presented for the first time as a stand-alone volume.One of Chekhov's most important length ...Show more
The Master of Ballantrae - A Winter's Tale by Robert Louis Stevenson; Andrea Barrett (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Complete and unabridged paperback edition.First published in 1888.
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy; J. I. M. Stewart (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Michael Henchard knew he deserved the pain he felt. Henchard is a handsome farm laborer. When he gets drunk at a country fair, he sells his wife and child to a sailor. The next day, ashamed by what he has done, he lets people believe that his wife has died. Thus begins a chain of events which leads Henc ...Show more
The Mysterious Island by Jules VERNE
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The Mysterious Island is another exquisite novel written by the master of adventure writing, Jules Verne. The novel has been seen as the sequel to two other famous novels written by the same author: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaway. The story revolves around five Amer ...Show more
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark; Wallace Stegner (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivi ...Show more
The Song of Roland by W. S. Merwin (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
A contemporary prose rendering of the great medieval French epic, The Song of Roland is as canonical and significant as the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf. It extols the chivalric ideals in the France of Charlemagne through the exploits of Charlemagne's nephew, the warrior Roland, who fights bravely to his death i ...Show more
The Sonnets and Other Poems by William Shakespeare; Jonathan Bate (Editor); Eric Rasmussen (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language's most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions-desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration and disgust. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in ...Show more
The Toilers of the Sea by HUGO VICTOR
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
A new translation by Scot James Hogarth for the first unabridged English edition of the novel, which tells the story of a reculsive fisherman from the Channel Islands who must free a ship that has run aground in order to win the hand of the woman he loves, a shipowner's daughter
Travels in Alaska by John Muir
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics
In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. Half-poet and half-geologist, he recorded his experiences and reflections in "Tra ...Show more
Turn of the Screw and in the Cage: AND In the Cage by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics
Two of Henry James's most accomplished novellas: The Turn of the Screw, one of modern literatures's most famous ghost stories; and in the cage, a poignant tale that provides an essential key to the understanding of James's heroines and to one of his most significant themes. with new introduction, commen ...Show more