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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 Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
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Category: Fiction | 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 Master of Ballantrae - A Winter's Tale by Robert Louis Stevenson; Andrea Barrett (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Complete and unabridged paperback edition.First published in 1888.
The New Voices of Islam : Reforming Politics And Modernity: A Reader by Mehran (EDT) Kamrava
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Library of Modern Middle East Studies
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 Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
In 1910, the mystery novelist Gaston Leroux, working from scraps of history, theatrical lore, and his own fertile imagination, created a masterpiece in Le fantome de l'opera, the story of a disfigured composer who lives in the labyrinthine depths of the Paris Opera. After the breathtaking debut of Chris ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
With an introduction by Anita Brookner, Portrait of a Lady is set from the definitive 1908 New York Edition and includes newly commissioned endnotes.
The Renaissance: A Short History by Paul Johnson
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Category: History | Series: Modern Library Chronicles
The Renaissance holds an undying place in our imagination, its great heroes still our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern and producing the most astonishing outpouri ...Show more
The Star Rover by Jack London; Lorenzo Carcaterra (Introduction by)
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Jack London books by SeaWolf Press were selected for sale by the Jack London Museum. A beautfiulversionwith the first edition cover and original frontispiece. This edition is part of the 100th Anniversary Collection honoring the 100th anniversary of Jack London's death in 1916. In his short 20-year car ...Show more
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics
Including an introduction by Louis Auchincloss, this edition features newly commissioned endnotes and a reading group guide.
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naIve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to o ...Show more
Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
'Trollope did not write for posterity, ' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, "The Way We Live Now" is a satire of the literary world of L ...Show more