Modern Library (Paperback)
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My Uncle Napoleon
$19.00 Read moreThe most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century
“God forbid, I’ve fallen in love with Layli!” So begins the farce of our narrator’s life, one spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded ov- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Pezeshkzad, Iraj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0812974433
- Language: English
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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941
$20.00 Add to cartThe publication of Victor Klemperer’s secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. “In its cool, lucid style and power of observation,” said The New York … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback) #1
- Author: Klemperer, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753788
- Language: English
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Black No More
$22.00 Add to cartModern Library Harlem Renaissance
What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned white? Would everybody be happy? These questions and more are answered hilariously in Black No- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Schuyler, George S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 29 1999
- ISBN10: 037575380X
- Language: English
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The Spanish Civil War
$26.00 Read more“Mr. Thomas has understood the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject.”–Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Thomas, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0375755152
- Language: English
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Dusk and Other Stories
$17.00 Read moreFirst published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital–each narrative a masterpiece of … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Salter, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0812981138
- Language: English
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To End a War: The Conflict in Yugoslavia–America’s Inside Story–Negotiating with Milosevic
$20.00 Read moreWhen President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America’s chief negotiator in late 1995, he took a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Holbrooke, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753605
- Language: English
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Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov
$21.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the award-winning author of The Revolutionary and The Witches comes “an elegantly nuanced portrait of [Vladimir Nabokov’s]… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0375755349
- Language: English
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The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut
$19.00 Add to cartIn 1934, famed British traveler Freya Stark sailed down the Red Sea, alighting in Aden, located at the tip of the Arabian peninsula. From this backwater outpost, Stark set forth on what was to be her … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Stark, Freya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 24 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757546
- Language: English
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The Valleys of the Assassins: And Other Persian Travels
$20.00 Add to cartHailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation’s most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Stark, Freya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 24 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757538
- Language: English
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Bulfinch’s Mythology: Includes the Age of Fable, the Age of Chivalry & Legends of Charlemagne
$21.00 Add to cartFor almost a century and a half, Bulfinch’s Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myt… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Bulfinch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: August 11 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751475
- Language: English
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Topper
$15.00 Add to cart” Thorne Smith] created the modern American ghost. A ghost with style and wit. A ghost that haunts us still.”
Thorne Smith is a master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee. To
–The New York Times- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Smith, Thorne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 02 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753052
- Language: English
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The Passionate Epicure: La Vie et la Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet
$17.00 Add to cartIn the classic French novel The Passionate Epicure, Marcel Rouff introduces Dodin-Bouffant, a character based loosely on Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, an infamous bachelor and epicure dedicated to the hig… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Rouff, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760806
- Language: English
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At the Mountains of Madness
$16.00 Add to cartIntroduction by China Mi ville
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessent- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Lovecraft, H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: June 14 2005
- ISBN10: 0812974417
- Language: English
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
$26.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD – One of Modern Library‘s 100 best nonfiction books of all time – One of Esquire‘s 50 best biographies of all time
“A towering biography . . . a… [more below]- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Morris, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: November 20 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756787
- Language: English
