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King Kong by WALLACE, EDGAR
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Introduction by Greg Bear Preface by Mark Cotta Vaz The giant prehistoric gorilla King Kong is one of the most recognized images in our culture. So great is the mighty Kong's hold on the popular imagination that his story-a gripping yarn of man versus nature, coupled with a fantastical update of the ...Show more
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
$12.00 NZD
Category: Latin Literature | 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
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Frederick Douglass; Kwame Anthony Appiah (Introduction by); Harriet A. Jacobs; Harriet Jacobs; Kwame Anthony Appiah (Introduction by)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume. Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people du ...Show more
Rimbaud Complete by Arthur Rimbaud; Wyatt Mason (Editor, Translator, Introduction by)
$18.00 NZD
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
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic 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 Song of Songs - The World's First Great Love Poem by Ariel Bloch (Translator); Chana Bloch (Translator); Stephen Mitchell (Foreword by); Robert Alter (Afterword by)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Modern Library Classics | Reading Level: good
"Next to Genesis, no book in the Hebrew Bible has had a stronger influence on Western literature than the Song of Songs."-The New York Review of Books One of the greatest love poems ever written, The Song of Songs celebrates the sexual awakening of a young woman and her lover and the intoxicating experi ...Show more
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