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Metamorphosis PB
$16.00 Add to cartTranslated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold
“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he foun
Featuring essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0812985141
- Language: English
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The Betrothed
$0.00 Read more“The first English translation in more than fifty years of Alessandro Manzoni’s masterpiece, a work of foundational Italian literature on par with the Divine Comedy and the Decameron.”–The Wall Stree
- Author: Manzoni, Alessandro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0679643567
- Language: English
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The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
$20.00 Add to cartThis clear and comprehensive anthology, culled from the vast corpus of Christian mystical literature by the renowned theologian and historian Bernard McGinn, presents nearly one hundred selections, fr… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: McGinn, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 12, 2006
- ISBN10: 0812974212
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
$9.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Jeffrey Eugenides – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionabl- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751513
- Language: English
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Invisible Man
$26.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Invisible Man is a milestone in American lit- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Ellison, Ralph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0679601392
- Language: English
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Inferno
$8.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary new verse translation of Dante’s masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen
Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most- Series: Modern Library Classics (Mass Market)
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 25, 2005
- ISBN10: 034548357X
- Language: English
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Out of Africa
$27.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
- Author: Dinesen, Isak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600213
- Language: English
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
$25.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Mary Oliver
The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and
Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783229
- Language: English
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de Profundis
$13.00 Add to cartWritten from Wilde’s prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of D… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 12, 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783210
- Language: English
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Crossing to Safety
$19.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Terry Tempest Williams
Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book
Afterword by T. H. Watkins- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 09 2002
- ISBN10: 037575931X
- Language: English
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In Cold Blood
$28.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote–also available are B- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 19, 2013
- ISBN10: 0812994388
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Letter
$8.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Kathryn Harrison
A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter
Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 19, 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783385
- Language: English
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The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
$25.00 Add to cartA landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, El… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Lefkowitz, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0812983092
- Language: English
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Answered Prayers: The Novel That Scandalized Capote’s Women
$26.00 Add to cartTruman Capote’s unfinished final novel is an unsparing tell-all of New York high society that sent a seismic shock through the public and Capote’s own social circle.
“Prose that makes the heart sing a- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593731107
- Language: English
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Meditations: A New Translation
$24.00 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… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0679642609
- Language: English
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
$28.00 Add to cartThe “masterpiece” (Michael Herr) of the New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road, No Country for Old Men, The Passenger, and Stella Maris
“Cormac McCarthy is the worthy d- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: McCarthy, Cormac
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02 2001
- ISBN10: 0679641041
- Language: English
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The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War
$29.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – After more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print, Michael Shaara’s Civil War classic, The Killer Angels, remains as vivid and powerful as the day… [more below]
- Series: Civil War Trilogy
- Author: Shaara, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0679643249
- Language: English
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The Basic Works of Aristotle
$26.00 Add to cartEdited by Richard McKeon, with an introduction by C.D.C. Reeve
Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and reli- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1520
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757996
- Language: English
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
$30.00 Add to cartPublished to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs’s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction
- Author: Jacobs, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0679644334
- Language: English
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Wuthering Heights
$10.00 Add to cartThe classic tale of tormented love and the inexorable pull of the past, from one of history’s greatest literary talents, with an introduction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, New York Times bestselling author… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Bront?, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0593244036
- Language: English
