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Austerlitz by W G Sebald
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald's celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. "Austerlitz" is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a "Kindertransport" in the summer of 1939 ...Show more
Chiron: Rainbow Bridge Between the Inner and Outer Planets (2nd edition) 2E by Barbara Hand Clow
15.00 AUD
55.00 (72% off)
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Modern Astrology Library
Since its discovery in 1977, few books have examined this exciting planetoid. This newly revised and expanded classic explores Chiron's mythological background and history. Analyzing its effect in each sign and house, you'll learn how Chiron rules Virgo and the 6th house, as well as Tarot, initiation, h ...Show more
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
23.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.
Cotter's England by Christina Stead
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
Cotters' England follows the lives of Nellie Cook, sister Peggy Cotter and brother Tom. Set in post-war England, it is a study of politics and betrayal in Nellie's professional and personal life. It is a story of smothered aspirations and dashed hopes, as class politics trap the Cotters and stifle their ...Show more
Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret MacMillan
32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Modern Library Chronicles
Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misuse ...Show more
Darkness Visible by William Styron
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the ful ...Show more
Disquiet, Please! by David Remnick
36.95 AUD
Category: Humour | Series: Modern Library
"The New Yorker" is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years it's also been a hoot. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found in this collection, by turns satirical and witty, misanthropic and me ...Show more
Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
First published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital--each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literary grace. Two New York attorneys newly flush with wealth ...Show more
For Love Alone by Christina Stead
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
Set in Sydney and London in the 1930s, 'For Love Alone' is the story of Teresa Hawkins, an intelligent, ardent young woman, and her search for the ideal passion of love.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
Charles Dicken's classic novel released as part of the Modern Library PB classic range.
Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
27.99 AUD
34.99 (20% off)
Category: History | Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Bks.
" More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNEHistorian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to lif ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Swann's Way is the first part of the saga In Search of Lost Time by a classic of theFrench literature Marcel Proust.Back in the day, this book confused the most sympathetic readers and critics,because at the first sight, it was an unsuccessful autobiographic novel that waschronologically complicated and ...Show more