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The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
$32.99 AUD
Category: CLA | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for one another. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watches in bleak despair, knowing the bitter reality that lies just below his mad visions. A chilling novel of the relations bet ...Show more
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great by Catherine The Great
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Modern Library
Empress Catherine II brought Europe to Russia, and Russia to Europe, during her long and eventful reign (1762-96). She fostered the culture of the Enlightenment and greatly expanded the immense empire created by Czar Ivan the Terrible, shifting the balance of power in Europe eastward. Famous for her wil ...Show more
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley CorngoldFeaturing essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly fun ...Show more
The Mysterious Island by Jules VERNE
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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 Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
$44.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Modern Library
One of the greatest biographies of our time by Edmund Morris the author of Dutch: A memoir of Ronald Reagan.
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
$44.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Modern Library Classics
The most eagerly awaited presidential biography in years, Theodore Rex is a sequel to Edmund Morris's classic bestseller The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It begins by following the new President (still the youngest in American history) as he comes down from Mount Marcy, New York, to take his emergency oa ...Show more
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson; David Cordingly (Introduction by)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Since its publication in 1883, Treasure Island has remained one of the great tales of the sea. The story is told through the eyes of young Jim Hawkins, who first hears the tales of buried pirate treasure while working in his father's tavern. Once he actually meets some of those pirates, the action moves ...Show more
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
"[Zamyatin's] intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism- human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself-makes [We] superior to Huxley's [Brave New World]."-George Orwell An inspiration for George Orwell's "1984" and a precursor to the work of Philip K. Dick and Stanislaw Lem, We is a class ...Show more
Wind In The Willows by GRAHAME Kenneth
$21.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Since its beginnings as a series of stories told to Kenneth Grahame's young son, The Wind in the Willows has gone on to become one of the best-loved children's books of all time. The timeless story of Toad, Rat, Mole, and Badger has delighted readers of all ages for more than eighty years.Friendly Rat, ...Show more