Modern Library
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The Alien and Sedition Acts
$20.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author and civil rights lawyer Qian Julie Wang introduces the highly controversial Alien and Sedition Acts, which have been used to justify the curtailing of basic freedoms … [more below]
- Author: Wang, Qian Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217155224
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers
$26.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham presents the brilliant and stirring essays in defense of the Constitution–written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison–that made the Am… [more below]
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217154555
- Language: English
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Henry VI: Parts I, II, and III
$19.00 Add to cart“The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea.”
–Henry VI
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of the three-part … [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0812969405
- Language: English
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The Bostonians
$17.00 Add to cartThis brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to contr… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812969960
- Language: English
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
$17.00 Add to cartThe literary classic that inspired the iconic Marilyn Monroe film–a brilliant satire of the Roaring Twenties that follows a wide-eyed blonde and her cynical brunette friend as they take Europe by sto… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Loos, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0593445821
- Language: English
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The Basic Writings of C. G. Jung
$27.00 Add to cartIn exploring the manifestations of human spiritual experience both in the imaginative activities of the individual and in the formation of mythologies and of religious symbolism in various cultures, C… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Jung, Carl G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 26 1993
- ISBN10: 067960071X
- Language: English
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A Hero of Our Time
$23.00 Add to cartIn its adventurous happenings-its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues-A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Lermontov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0812970764
- Language: English
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The Innocents Abroad: Or, the New Pilgrims’ Progress
$25.00 Add to cartThe Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967054
- Language: English
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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
$27.00 Add to cartThe New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing-food and drink memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons.
“To read this sparely elegant, moving port… [more below]- Author: Remnick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 081297641X
- Language: English
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The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints
$19.00 Read moreCould an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Exploration
- Author: Severin, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0375755241
- Language: English
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$8.00 Add to cartIntroduction by George Saunders
”All modern American literature comes from one book by
Commentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant, Bernard DeVoto, Clifton Fadiman, T. S. Eliot, and Leo Marx- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757376
- Language: English
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The Confidence-Man
$20.00 Add to cart“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the r… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 037575802X
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
$21.00 Add to cart“Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying,” wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac’s La Com?die Humaine, Cousin Bette is the… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Balzac, Honoré de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759077
- Language: English
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The Duel
$16.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 081297008X
- Language: English
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Mansfield Park
$18.00 Add to cartThrough Fanny Price, the heroine of Mansfield Park, Jane Austen views the social mores of her day and contemplates human nature itself. A shy and sweet-tempered girl adopted by wealthy relations, Fann… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757813
- Language: English
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Common Sense: And Other Writings
$15.00 Add to cartIncludes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of Reason (part one); Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, published anonymously and just discovered to be Paine’s… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Paine, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0375760113
- Language: English
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The Charterhouse of Parma
$22.00 Add to cartRichard Howard’s exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal’s stirring tale has brought about the rediscovery of this classic by modern readers. Stendhal narrates a young aristocrat’s adventures i… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Stendhal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783180
- Language: English
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My First Summer in the Sierra
$14.00 Read moreJohn Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become a famed conservationist when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, not long after the Civil War. He was so captivated by w… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 353
- Publish Date: November 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968654
- Language: English
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The Renaissance: A Short History
$22.00 Add to cartThe Renaissance holds an undying place in our imagination, its great heroes still our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. This period of profound evolution in European thought is… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 0812966198
- Language: English
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The Awakening
$9.00 Read moreA new edition of Kate Chopin’s controversial masterpiece, an essential novel in the canon of early feminism–with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado, award-winning author of Her Body and Other Pa… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Chopin, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1984854364
- Language: English
