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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
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
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 Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
$28.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and ot ...Show more
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller; James Berger (Editor, Preface by)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
THE 100th YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION The Story of My Life, a remarkable account of overcoming the debilitating challenges of being both deaf and blind, has become an international classic, making Helen Keller one of the most well-known, inspirational figures in history. Originally published in 1903, K ...Show more
Walden and Other Writings by Henry Thoreau; Ralph Waldo Emerson (Introduction by); Brooks Atkinson (Editor)
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Introduction by Ralph Waldo EmersonCommentary by Van Wyck Brooks and E. B. WhiteNaturalist, philosopher, champion of self-reliance and moral independence, Henry David Thoreau remains not only one of our most influential writers but also one of our most contemporary. This unique and comprehensive edition ...Show more
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