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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
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 Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky; David Magarshack (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
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
$42.99 AUD
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 Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
$23.00 AUD
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
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)
$19.99 AUD
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