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Rimbaud Complete by Arthur Rimbaud; Wyatt Mason (Editor, Translator, Introduction by)
$33.95 AUD
$35.00 (3% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this ...Show more
Secret Ingredients - The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink by David Remnick (ed.)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Food | Series: Modern Library
In this indispensable collection, "The New Yorker" dishes up a feast of delicious food writing--food and drink memoirs, short stories, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons.
Seven Poor Men of Sydney by Christina Stead
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian | 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
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
Set in medieval Paris, Victor Hugo s powerful historical romance "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" has resonated with succeeding generations ever since its publication in 1837. It tells the story of the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the tormented archdeacon Claude Frollo, who lusts afte ...Show more
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library
This story might be better remembered from the 1943 Orson Welles movie - as the story of George Amberson Menafer and his Hoosier family. It won Tarkington the first of his Pulitzer Prizes in 1918.
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian | 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 Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from the New Yorker by David Remnick
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Category: Sport | Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
For more than eighty years, "The New Yorker" has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. "The Only Game in Town" is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench, including such authors as Roger Angell, John Updike, Don DeLillo, and John McPhee ...Show more
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
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Category: Historical | Series: Modern Library
One of the greatest biographies of our time by Edmund Morris the author of Dutch: A memoir of Ronald Reagan.
The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Modern Library
Marco Polo's classic account of his travels throughout the East in the 13th century is one of the earliest European travel narratives. This book has been revised from Marsden's translation and is edited by Manuel Komroff. It contains an introduction by Jason Goodwin, along with commentary, notes and a r ...Show more