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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 First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology’s Greatest Mystery
$24.00 Add to cartJ. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?
At its heart,- Author: Adovasio, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 17 2003
- ISBN10: 037575704X
- Language: English
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Nothing Grows by Moonlight
$17.00 Add to cartFirst published in Norway in 1947, this “breathtakingly powerful” (The Guardian) novel of one woman’s soul-shattering love affair introduces a major twentieth-century international writer to an Americ… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Nedreaas, Torborg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217155118
- Language: English
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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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The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen’s Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated
$22.00 Add to cartAt the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Exploration
- Author: Huntford, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0375754741
- 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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Suspicion
$17.00 Add to cartA taut psychological thriller about the hidden demons that guide our convictions, our biases, and our deepest desires, available in English for the first time from “Japan’s Agatha Christie.” (The Sund… [more below]
- Author: Matsumoto, Seicho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593979060
- 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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Law in America: A Short History
$22.00 Add to cartThroughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of the subject’s great… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Friedman, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0812972856
- Language: English
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Baseball: A History of America’s Favorite Game
$20.00 Add to cart“Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey’s book proves it, without wasting a word.”–Lee Eisenbe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Vecsey, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0812978706
- 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
