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Cotter's England by Christina Stead
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian | 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
$24.95 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
Disquiet, Please! by David Remnick
$40.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & 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
Fierce Pajamas by David Remnick
$30.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour | Series: Modern Library
When Harold Ross founded "The New Yorker" in 1925, he called it a "comic weekly." And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder's description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists in the modern era--among them Robert Benchley, D ...Show more
For Love Alone by Christina Stead
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian | 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.
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden by Eleanor Perenyi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gardens | Series: Modern Library
An original and elegnt blend of historical and literary gardening lore, personal opinion and extensive experience with all facets fo life in the garden.
Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
$35.00 AUD
Category: War | 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
Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
$30.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Modern Library Chronicles
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and civil war. In a vital revision of this narrow view of Islam and a distillation of years of thinking and ...Show more
Letty Fox by Christina Stead
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
In this classic novel by Christina Stead, published here with an introduction by Carmen Callil, Letty Fox tells her story as a self-styled woman in New York's world of passion, love and sexual bargaining. As a bright, uninhibited daughter of a middle class couple who believes the world is her oyster, Le ...Show more
Life Stories - Profiles from The New Yorker by David Remnick
$34.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Modern Library
a Dazzling collection of biographical profiles of some of the most important and most captivating figures of our century.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus's insights and advice - on everything from living in the world to ...Show more
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels Ser.
Winner of the Booker of BookersSaleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India's independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every ac ...Show more