Modern Library
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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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Inferno
$17.00 Add to cartTranslated by Anthony Esolen
A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante’s masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that repro
Illustrations by Gustave Dor- Series: Divine Comedy #1
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812970063
- Language: English
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The Aeneid
$18.00 Add to cartA fresh and faithful translation of Vergil’s Aeneid restores the epic’s spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.
“Vivid and haunting .- Author: Vergil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1984854127
- Language: English
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Passing
$16.00 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING TESSA THOMPSON AND RUTH NEGGA
Two women in 1920s New York discover how fluid and dangerous our perceptions of race can be in this electrifying classic of the Harlem- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Larsen, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0375758135
- Language: English
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Leaves of Grass: The Death-Bed Edition
$16.00 Read more- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783423
- Language: English
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The Importance of Being Earnest: And Other Plays
$12.00 Read moreOscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, comic masterpieces of all time, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, in 1895. Considered one of the greatest THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is a farce… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0812967143
- Language: English
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The Gardener’s Bed-Book: Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things
$18.00 Read moreFirst published in 1929, The Gardener’s Bed-Book is a much beloved gardening classic by the renowned editor of House & Garden magazine in the 1920s and ’30s. Each of its 365 perfectly sized little ess… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Gardening
- Author: Wright, Richardson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 22 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968735
- 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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The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation – The electrifying collected works of “one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets in early twentieth-century Japan” (The New Yorker). … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Sagawa, Chika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0593230019
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby
$17.00 Add to cartThe classic novel that continues to haunt our understanding of ambition, love, entitlement, and the American Dream–with an exclusive discussion guide and an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning cri… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0593133552
- Language: English
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In Search of Lost Time: Within a Budding Grove V. 2 (Revised)
$22.00 Read moreFirst published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhoo… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0375752196
- 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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The House of the Seven Gables
$11.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne’s defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cur… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756876
- Language: English
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Villette
$14.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Jane Eyre, a strikingly modern story of a young woman starting over–with an introduction by Weike Wang, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of Chemistry
“Villette Villette Have y- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 037575850X
- Language: English
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Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats
$19.00 Read more‘I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death, ‘ John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic geni… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Keats, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756698
- Language: English
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Ethan Frome & Summer
$14.00 Read moreA pair of masterly short novels, featuring an introduction by Elizabeth Strout, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Anything Is Possible and My Name Is Lucy Barton
Thought Edith Wharton is best know- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757287
- Language: English
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Persuasion
$7.00 Add to cartJane Austen’s last completed novel, a brilliantly insightful story of regret, second chances, and the courage to follow our hearts
Anne Elliot is twenty-seven and unmarried–by all accounts a spinster- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757295
- Language: English
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Guadalcanal Diary
$18.00 Read moreThis celebrated classic gives a soldier’s-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles–crucial to World War II, the war that continues to fascinate us all, and to military history in general. Unlike some of t… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library War
- Author: Tregaskis, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 30 2000
- ISBN10: 0679640231
- Language: English
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
$12.00 Read moreSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING THE CROWN‘S EMMA CORRIN AND UNBROKEN‘S JACK O’CONNELL
Introduction by Kathryn Harrison Inspired by the long-standing affair between D. H. Lawrence’s German- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375758003
- Language: English
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
$13.00 Add to cartEdited and with an Introduction by Matthew Pearl
Includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rog t,” and “The Purloined Letter”
Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented th… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 23 2006
- ISBN10: 0679643427
- Language: English
