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Peoples and Empires - A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present by Anthony Pagden
49.99 AUD
Category: Popular 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: New Age | 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
Rimbaud Complete by Arthur Rimbaud; Wyatt Mason (Editor, Translator, Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
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
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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
Spoopy Tarot - A 78-Card Deck of Creepy and Cute by Amí Naeily
44.99 AUD
Category: New Age | Series: Modern Tarot Library
Spoopy Tarot is a kawaii treat for all the spooky season tricksters, featuring the classic tarot deck reimagined with cute li'l ghosts, nasty witches, and other fun stuff that goes bump in the night. Instead of the fool's journey, Spoopy Tarot follows a spirit floating through a haunted house, encounter ...Show more
Taras Bulba by GOGOL NIKOLAI
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The First New Translation in Forty YearsSet sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol's epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba's two sons.As Robert Kaplan writ ...Show more
The American Revolution: A History by Gordon S Wood (Brown University)
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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
The Dream Book: The Modern Mystic's Guide to Understanding Dreams by Raphael
22.99 AUD
Category: New Age | Series: Modern Mystic Library
Unlock the meaning of your dreams! Our dreams can be wild, beautiful, and sometimes just bizarre, but what do they mean? First published in the 19th century, but now updated and revised for modern readers, Raphael's The Dream Book is your guide to untangling the meaning of every midnight reverie. The ...Show more
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
27.99 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
34.99 AUD
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 Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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