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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
Middlemarch by George Eliot
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Modern Library Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A masterful tale of a small town in the English midlands, and the hopes, regrets, and unrealized dreams of those who make it their home. In Middlemarch, George Eliot created a landmark of English literature as she incisively portrayed the drama and folly found in even the most simple and bucolic of prec ...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 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 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
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