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Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
This English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte D''Arthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory. Malory charts the tragic disintegration of the fellowship of the Round Table, destroyed from within by warring factions.'
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Modern Library
This is a new paperback edition of the final "Deathbed" edition of Whitman magnum opus. It includes an introduction by John Ashberry.
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Modern Library Classics | Reading Level: very good
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus's insights and advice - on everything from living in the world to ...Show more
New York, New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Artists in Emerging Practices by Kathy Battista
34.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art Ser.
New York is a centre of creative production for an exciting, emerging generation of women artists. Their work investigates themes such as the body as medium and subject matter; the deconstruction of the existing patriarchal order of the art world; the appropriation of earlier art historical references; ...Show more
Peoples and Empires - A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present by Anthony Pagden
49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Modern Library Chronicles Ser.
Cambridge professor and renowned historian Anthony Pagden covers a vast subject in a compact package with Peoples and Empires. This wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating work examines the origins and history of the West with terse, efficient prose. With a captivating narration by Robert O'Keefe, l ...Show more
Reading Tea Leaves - The Modern Mystic's Guide to Tea Leaf Divination by A. Highland Seer
16.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: The\Modern Mystic Library
Reading Tea Leaves is your ultimate guide to the ancient art of tasseography--divination with tea leaves. Traditionally a homespun form of divination often practiced by women, tea-leaf reading gave glimpses into the drama of daily life--who was stopping by after supper and if a letter was on the way. Th ...Show more
Red and the Black by Stendhal; Burton Raffel (Translator); Diane Johnson (Introduction by)
24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The Red and the Black, Stendhal's masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorel's quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters along the way ...Show more
Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
24.99 AUD
32.99 (24% off)
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | 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.
Seven Poor Men of Sydney by Christina Stead
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
Originally published in 1934, Seven Poor Men of Sydney is Christina Stead's first novel, a brilliant portrayal of a group of men and women living in Sydney in the 1920s amid conditions of poverty and social turmoil. Set against the vividly drawn backgrounds of Fisherman's (Watson's) Bay and the innercit ...Show more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library
In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals t ...Show more
The American Revolution: A History by Gordon S Wood (Brown University)
17.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Chronicles Ser.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years."--Joseph ...Show more