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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
Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
A series of letters to a writer seeking guidance revealing the thoughts and feelings of one of the greatest poets and most distinctive sensibilites of the 20th century.
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
Rome by William Warde Fowler
$6.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge | Reading Level: good
Secret Ingredients - The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink by David Remnick (ed.)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Food | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
In this indispensable collection, "The New Yorker" dishes up a feast of delicious food writing--food and drink memoirs, short stories, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons.
The Complete Works of Rabelais: The Five Books of Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais; Jaques Le Clercq (translator)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: The Modern Library of the World's Best Books | Reading Level: good
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
$20.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs (Foreword by); Jane Jacobs (Foreword by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Modern Library Ser.
In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsy ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri; Carlyle-Wicksteed Translation
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Illustrated Modern Library | Reading Level: good
The Gardener's Year by Karel Capek
$10.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
A droll meditation on the passions and isiosyncracies fo gardeners by the notable dissident Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek.
The Hellenistic Age - A short history by Peter Green
$12.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Modern Library Chronicles | Reading Level: very good
The Hellenistic era witnessed the overlap of antiquity's two great Western civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. This was the epoch of Alexander's vast expansion of the Greco-Macedonian world, the rise and fall of his successors' major dynasties in Egypt and Asia, and, ultimately, the establishment of ...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