Modern Library Classics
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Meditations: A New Translation
$11.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “Meditations offers a glimpse into [Marcus Aurelius’s] mind, his habits, and his approach to life. . . . I think any reader would find something useful to take away from it.”–Ja
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06, 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968255
- Language: English
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King Kong
$5.95 Add to cartIntroduction by Greg Bear
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 imag
Preface by Mark Cotta Vaz- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wallace, Edgar
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0345484967
- Language: English
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Henry IV, Part 2
$14.00 Add to cartAfter defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. But Prince Hal’s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroy the ailing Henry IV’s dream of a lasting dynasty. Shakespeare’s portr… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0812969251
- Language: English
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Twelfth Night
$16.00 Add to cartA pair of twins are separated by a shipwreck, each believing the other has drowned. A lovesick duke woos a countess deep in mourning for her brother, while her rowdy household plots the downfall of he… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0812969235
- Language: English
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Klondike Tales
$21.00 Add to cartAs a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London’… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 13 2001
- ISBN10: 037575685X
- Language: English
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The Land of Little Rain
$21.00 Add to cart-Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite–east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert- is the territory that Mary A… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Austin, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968522
- Language: English
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Fathers and Sons
$19.00 Add to cartWhen Fathers and Sons was first published in Russia, in 1862, it was met with a blaze of controversy about where Turgenev stood in relation to his account of generational misunderstanding. Was he crit… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Turgenev, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375758399
- Language: English
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The Blithedale Romance
$18.00 Add to cartThe Blithedale Romance, considered one of Hawthorne’s major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against an experiment in communal living. From mesmerism to illicit love, The Blithedal… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757201
- Language: English
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Little Women
$18.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Susan Cheever
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Katherine Fullerton Gerould, and Madeleine B. Stern
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
It i… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756728
- Language: English
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Julius Caesar
$12.00 Add to cart“It must be by his death.”
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this masterpiece of political power play and manipulation–alon
—Julius Caesar- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0812969367
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain
$24.00 Add to cartThis unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumpi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0812971183
- Language: English
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The Sea-Wolf
$19.00 Add to cart- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783377
- Language: English
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Madame Bovary
$19.00 Add to cartA new translation by Adam Thorpe
Gustave Flaubert once said of his heroine, “Emma Bovary, c’est moi.” In this acclaimed new translation, Adam Thorpe brings readers closer than ever before to Flaubert- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0812985206
- Language: English
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The Lost World
$20.00 Add to cartIn The Lost World, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger–a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction–Challenger and his party … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967259
- Language: English
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The Sonnets and Other Poems
$16.00 Add to cartShakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language’s most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions-desire an… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0812969200
- Language: English
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The Red Badge of Courage & the Veteran
$19.00 Add to cartOne of the greatest works of American literature, The Red Badge of Courage gazes fearlessly into the bright hell of war through the eyes of one young soldier, the reluctant Henry Fleming. Written by S… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Crane, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783202
- Language: English
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The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
$23.00 Add to cartFrom “A Scandal in Bohemia,” in which Sherlock Holmes is famously outwitted by a woman, the captivating Irene Adler, to “The Five Orange Pips,” in which the master detective is pitted against the Ku K… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760024
- Language: English
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The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man’s Recreation
$19.00 Add to cartAn immediate success when if was first published in 1653, Walton’s classic celebrtion of the joys of fishing continues to captivate anglers and nature lovers with its timeless advice and instruction. … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Walton, Izaak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 26 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751483
- Language: English
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Mosses from an Old Manse
$22.00 Add to cartMosses from an Old Manse is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s second story collection, first published in 1846 in two volumes and featuring sketches and tales written over a span of more than twenty years, includ… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812966058
- Language: English
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The Song of Roland
$17.00 Add to cartA contemporary prose rendering of the great medieval French epic, The Song of Roland is as canonical and significant as the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf. It extols the chivalric ideals in the France of Charlem… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Merwin, W. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757112
- Language: English
