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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
$19.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work of early feminism that extends … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757228
- Language: English
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The Magnificent Ambersons
$23.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Tarkington, Booth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 1998
- ISBN10: 0375752501
- Language: English
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
$20.00 Add to cartThe Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature’ s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book’s eponymous character… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 06 2009
- ISBN10: 081298045X
- Language: English
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Clotel: Or, the President’s Daughter
$19.00 Add to cartThe first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Brown, William Wells
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0679783237
- Language: English
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The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography
$20.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
‘I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams, ‘ said Gore Vidal. ‘He was remarkably prescient about t- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
- Author: Adams, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 517
- Publish Date: May 11 1999
- ISBN10: 067964010X
- Language: English
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Riders of the Purple Sage
$20.00 Add to cartTold by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, “combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture,” Riders of the Purpl… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Grey, Zane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0812966120
- Language: English
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The Betrothed
$20.00 Add to cartItaly’s greatest novel and a masterpiece of world literature, The Betrothed chronicles the unforgettable romance of Renzo and Lucia, who endure tyranny, war, famine, and plague to be together.
Publish- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Manzoni, Alessandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0812978811
- Language: English
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The Balkans: A Short History
$17.00 Add to cartThroughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodox… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Mazower, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 081296621X
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$21.00 Add to cartConsidered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy’s classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: October 10 2000
- ISBN10: 067978330X
- Language: English
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Far from the Madding Crowd
$17.00 Add to cartFar from the Madding Crowd, Hardy’s passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular noveli… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 11 2001
- ISBN10: 037575797X
- Language: English
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States
$18.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham introduces America’s essential founding documents in an elegant, readable, and timeless volume.
In the winter of 1860-1861, facing the prospect of sece- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217154524
- Language: English
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A Raisin in the Sun
$18.99 Add to cart“Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people’s lives been seen on the stage,” observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 22 1995
- ISBN10: 679601724
- Language: English
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang & to Build a Fire
$10.00 Add to cartThe Call of the Wild–Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world,” E. L. Doctorow wrote in Th- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 1998
- ISBN10: 037575251X
- Language: English
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In Search of Lost Time
$100.00 Add to cartFor this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definiti… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 6
- Publish Date: June 03 2003
- ISBN10: 0812969642
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories
$27.00 Add to cartThe 50th-anniversary edition of the classic, savagely comic account of a trip to Las Vegas that came to represent what happened to America in the 1960s–and a founding document of “gonzo journalism”–… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 1998
- ISBN10: 0679602984
- Language: English
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The Hellenistic Age: A Short History
$20.00 Add to cartThe Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity’s great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Green’s remarkably far-ranging stu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Green, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0812967402
- Language: English
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Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
$10.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Wendy Steiner – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley, while staying in the Swiss Alps with her lover Pe- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 26 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753419
- Language: English
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Father Brown: The Essential Tales
$17.00 Add to cartG. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man’s frailties-gained during his years l… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0812972228
- Language: English
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The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
$27.00 Add to cart- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600078
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$15.00 Add to cartThe unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women–with an introduction by Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried and National… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593230361
- Language: English
