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Ethics - The Essential Writings by Gordon Marino (Editor)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
"In Ethics- The Essential Writings, philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years of thought from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter Sing ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors- the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in con ...Show more
Father Brown: The Essential Tales by G K Chesterton
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man's frailties-gained during his years listening to confessions-Father Brown succeeds in bringing even the most elusive criminals to justice. ...Show more
For Love Alone by Christina Stead
Category: Fiction | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
Set in Sydney and London in the 1930s, 'For Love Alone' is the story of Teresa Hawkins, an intelligent, ardent young woman, and her search for the ideal passion of love.
Frankenstein (modern library) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: No Category | 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
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden by Eleanor Perenyi
Category: Gardening | Series: Modern Library
An original and elegnt blend of historical and literary gardening lore, personal opinion and extensive experience with all facets fo life in the garden.
Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis
Category: Military | Series: Modern Library
The celebrated classic that gives a soldier's eye view of the dramatic Guadalcanal battles of World War II
Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Category: Military | Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Bks.
" More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNEHistorian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to lif ...Show more
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and the Wilderness Hunter by Theodore Roosevelt; Stephen E. Ambrose (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Written during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Bad Lands, these two wilderness tales by Theodore Roosevelt endure today as part of the classic folklore of the West. The narratives provide vivid portraits of the land as well as the people and animals that inhabited it, underscoring Roosevelt's abidi ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of A la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was publishe ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | 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 #2: Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Chronicles Ser.
First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Sw ...Show more