Modern Library Classics
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche
$30.00 Add to cartThis captivating collection brings together five of Friedrich Nietzche’s most important philosophical works, exploring themes such as nihilism, metaphysics, and the nature of morality–featuring an in… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600000
- Language: English
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
$13.00 Add to cartWritten in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the earliest scientific romances. An instant sensation, it was meant as a commentary on Darwin’s theory of evolution, which H. G. Wells stoutly beli… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760962
- Language: English
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Tales, Poems, and Other Writings
$29.00 Add to cartFrom short masterpieces like “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Billy Budd” to more obscure, even completely unknown works like the epic poem “Clarel,” Melville’s stories and poems rank among his greatest … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375757120
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Island
$23.00 Add to cartBased on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Verne, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: December 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0812966422
- Language: English
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The Warden
$19.00 Add to cartThe first of Trollope’s popular Barsetshire novels, set in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester, The Warden centers on the honorable cleric Septimus Harding, one of Trollope’s most memorable cha… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967046
- Language: English
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The Kreutzer Sonata
$12.00 Read moreWhen Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kr… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968239
- Language: English
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Great Expectations
$11.00 Add to cartIntroduction by George Bernard Shaw – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757015
- Language: English
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Middlemarch
$12.00 Add to cartOne of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of ferven… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: October 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783318
- Language: English
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
$19.00 Add to cartFull of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Burton, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756752
- Language: English
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The Gambler
$21.00 Add to cartIn this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through t… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0812966937
- Language: English
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Oliver Twist
$17.00 Add to cartDickens’s classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England’s Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgetta… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0375757848
- Language: English
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche PB
$22.00 Add to cartThis captivating collection brings together five of Friedrich Nietzche’s most important philosophical works, exploring themes such as nihilism, metaphysics, and the nature of morality–featuring an in… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783393
- Language: English
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Swann’s Way
$20.00 Add to cartIn Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator’s childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: June 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751548
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
$18.00 Add to cartThis collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky’s key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in h… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756884
- Language: English
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War and Peace
$22.00 Add to cartIntroduction by A. N. Wilson – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Na- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1424
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760644
- Language: English
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David Copperfield
$12.00 Add to cartHugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens’s own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heart… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783415
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$6.95 Add to cartThis 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 enlight- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0345478231
- Language: English
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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 1: The Dryden Translation
$20.00 Add to cartPlutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by fa… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756760
- Language: English
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The Waste Land and Other Writings
$12.00 Add to cartAlso includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of th… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759344
- Language: English
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
$30.00 Read moreFrom the renowned author of Invisible Man, a classic, “elegant” (The New York Times) collection of essays that captures the breadth and complexity of his insights into racial identity, jazz and folkl… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Ellison, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0593730062
- Language: English
