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Basic Writings of Existentialism by Gordon Daniel Marino
$39.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The perfect choice for those who wonder what existentialism is all about. Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because ...Show more
Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism by Bernard McGinn
$33.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
This clear and comprehensive anthology, culled from the vast corpus of Christian mystical literature by the renowned theologian and historian Bernard McGinn, presents nearly one hundred selections, from the writings of Origen of Alexandria in the third century to the work of twentieth-century mystics su ...Show more
Frankenstein (modern library) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
$21.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
A beautiful new edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein INCLUDES A CULTURAL HISTORY OF FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER BY JEANETTE WINTERSON Navigating the Arctic, the captain of a ship rescues a man wandering near death across the ice caps. How the man got there reveals itself a story of ...Show more
History of the Conquest of Mexico by William H. Prescott
$52.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Modern Library Classics
This is a pioneering work that has been reissued at least 200 times since its first publication in 1843. It is a compelling view of the clash of civilisation that reverberates in Latin America even to this day. It contains an introduction by James Lockhart, with commentary, notes and a reading group gui ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
$35.00 NZD
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
In Search of Lost Time #3: The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The "Guermantes Way," in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes's ch teau near Combray. It also represents the narrator's passage into the rarefied "social kaleidoscope" of the Guermantes's Paris salon, an important intellectua ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #4: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Sodom and Gomorrah opens a new phase of In Search of Lost Time. While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guer-mantes's orchid, the narrator secretly observes a sexual encounter between two men. "Flower and plant have no conscious will," Samuel Beckett wrote of Proust's representation of sexualit ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #6: Time Regained by Marcel Proust
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Time Regained, the final volume of In Search of Lost Time, begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature--his past life. This Mode ...Show more
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics | Reading Level: very good
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
Red and the Black by Stendhal; Burton Raffel (Translator); Diane Johnson (Introduction by)
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The Red and the Black, Stendhal's masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorel's quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters along the way ...Show more
The Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky; David Magarshack (Translator)
$0.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
After a brief military career, the illustrious Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky quickly turned to writing as a profession with the publication of his first novel, "Poor Folk," in 1846. This novel sparked a literary career that would eventually cement Dostoyevsky's reputation as one of the greatest nove ...Show more
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
$26.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics
The classic scifi alien invasion novel tells the suspenseful tale of the Triffid attack on Earth, which wreaks havoc across the planet as a grotesque form of plant life, harmful to humankind, terrorizes human civilization. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.