Modern Library Classics
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The Prince and the Pauper
$18.00 Add to cartSet in sixteenth-century England, Mark Twain’s classic “tale for young people of all ages” features two identical-looking boys–a prince and a pauper–who trade clothes and step into each other’s live… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0375761128
- Language: English
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
$18.00 Add to cartHank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan bri… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757805
- Language: English
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States
$24.00 Add to cartThe series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in 1787 and 1788 by… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757864
- Language: English
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
$10.00 Add to cart- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757910
- Language: English
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Candide: or, Optimism
$19.00 Add to cartIn this splendid new translation of Voltaire’s satiric masterpiece, all the celebrated wit, irony, and trenchant social commentary of one of the great works of the Enlightenment is restored and refres… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0812972015
- Language: English
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
$15.00 Add to cart“Why, then the world’s mine oyster.”
—The Merry Wives of Windsor
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love, laughter, a… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0812969324
- Language: English
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Henry VI: Parts I, II, and III
$19.00 Add to cart“The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea.”
–Henry VI
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of the three-part … [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0812969405
- Language: English
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The Bostonians
$17.00 Add to cartThis brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to contr… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812969960
- Language: English
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A Hero of Our Time
$23.00 Add to cartIn its adventurous happenings-its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues-A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Lermontov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0812970764
- Language: English
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The Innocents Abroad: Or, the New Pilgrims’ Progress
$25.00 Add to cartThe Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967054
- Language: English
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$8.00 Add to cartIntroduction by George Saunders
”All modern American literature comes from one book by
Commentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant, Bernard DeVoto, Clifton Fadiman, T. S. Eliot, and Leo Marx- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757376
- Language: English
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The Confidence-Man
$20.00 Add to cart“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the r… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 037575802X
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
$21.00 Add to cart“Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying,” wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac’s La Com?die Humaine, Cousin Bette is the… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Balzac, Honoré de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759077
- Language: English
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The Duel
$16.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 081297008X
- Language: English
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Mansfield Park
$18.00 Add to cartThrough Fanny Price, the heroine of Mansfield Park, Jane Austen views the social mores of her day and contemplates human nature itself. A shy and sweet-tempered girl adopted by wealthy relations, Fann… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757813
- Language: English
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Common Sense: And Other Writings
$15.00 Add to cartIncludes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of Reason (part one); Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, published anonymously and just discovered to be Paine’s… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Paine, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0375760113
- Language: English
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The Charterhouse of Parma
$22.00 Add to cartRichard Howard’s exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal’s stirring tale has brought about the rediscovery of this classic by modern readers. Stendhal narrates a young aristocrat’s adventures i… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Stendhal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783180
- Language: English
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My First Summer in the Sierra
$14.00 Read moreJohn Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become a famed conservationist when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, not long after the Civil War. He was so captivated by w… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 353
- Publish Date: November 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968654
- Language: English
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
$19.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work of early feminism that extends … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757228
- Language: English
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
$20.00 Add to cartThe Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature’ s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book’s eponymous character… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 06 2009
- ISBN10: 081298045X
- Language: English
