Modern Library Classics
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Clotel: Or, the President’s Daughter
$19.00 Add to cartThe first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Brown, William Wells
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0679783237
- Language: English
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Riders of the Purple Sage
$20.00 Add to cartTold by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, “combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture,” Riders of the Purpl… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Grey, Zane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0812966120
- Language: English
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The Canterbury Tales
$24.00 Add to cartBeyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language-and for good reason: It is lively,… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0812978455
- Language: English
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
$26.00 Add to cartIntroduction and Notes by Robert Folkenflik
Rich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman provoked- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Sterne, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 21 2004
- ISBN10: 0375761195
- Language: English
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Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
$22.00 Add to cartSelected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworth’s prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late “Yarrow Rev… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wordsworth, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: February 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759417
- Language: English
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The Betrothed
$20.00 Add to cartItaly’s greatest novel and a masterpiece of world literature, The Betrothed chronicles the unforgettable romance of Renzo and Lucia, who endure tyranny, war, famine, and plague to be together.
Publish- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Manzoni, Alessandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0812978811
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$21.00 Add to cartConsidered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy’s classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: October 10 2000
- ISBN10: 067978330X
- Language: English
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Far from the Madding Crowd
$17.00 Add to cartFar from the Madding Crowd, Hardy’s passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular noveli… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 11 2001
- ISBN10: 037575797X
- Language: English
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Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
$22.00 Add to cartFeaturing the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her master’s baby, and the clever Pudd’nhead Wilson, an ostracized small-town… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0812966228
- Language: English
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The War of the Worlds
$15.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Arthur C. Clarke
Commentary by Jules Verne and an anonymous reviewer from The Critic
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being wat… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759239
- Language: English
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The Idiot
$18.00 Read moreReturning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women the notorious kept woman Nastasya and … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0679642420
- Language: English
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Treasure Island
$17.00 Add to cart- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756825
- Language: English
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The Portrait of a Lady
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, “affront her destiny.” James began The Portrait of a Lady wi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: February 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759190
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$24.00 Add to cart“My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, ” is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait o… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0812970314
- Language: English
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The Ambassadors
$19.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Colm T ib n
One of the final masterpieces from one of the world’s greatest authors, Henry James’s The Ambassadors is now available for the first time in a Modern Library edition, with- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0812982703
- Language: English
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang & to Build a Fire
$10.00 Add to cartThe Call of the Wild–Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world,” E. L. Doctorow wrote in Th- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 1998
- ISBN10: 037575251X
- Language: English
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In Search of Lost Time
$100.00 Add to cartFor 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 definiti… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 6
- Publish Date: June 03 2003
- ISBN10: 0812969642
- Language: English
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Hadji Murad
$22.00 Add to cartIn 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Mur d, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967119
- Language: English
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
$20.00 Add to cartEdited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley
In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he
Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Equiano, Olaudah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 11 2004
- ISBN10: 0375761152
- Language: English
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Troilus and Cressida
$19.00 Add to cartOften called the first great English novel, Troilus and Cressida, a tragic love story set during the siege of Troy, is Chaucer’s masterpiece. Troilus, a valiant warrior, is scornful of love until he c… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375757368
- Language: English
