Modern Library
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
$30.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – An “urgently readable” (Newsweek) biography of the captivating tsar who changed Russian history–from the New York Times bestselling author of Nicholas and Alexandra, The Roman… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0679645608
- Language: English
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Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden
$17.00 Read moreBack in print after fifty years
Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse’s immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the- Series: Modern Library Gardening
- Author: Arkell, Reginald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967380
- Language: English
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The Return of the Soldier
$15.00 Add to cartA soldier returns home transformed by World War I, sending shock waves through the lives of three women, in Rebecca West’s groundbreaking debut novel
Jenny has been waiting for the return of her cousi- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: West, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0812971221
- Language: English
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Stowaway to Mars
$17.00 Add to cartA space opera set on Mars by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant–and neglected–science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England… [more below]
- Author: Wyndham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0593450167
- Language: English
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Islam: A Short History
$18.00 Add to cartNo religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 081296618X
- Language: English
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A Passage to India
$22.00 Add to cartThe richest and most ambitious novel by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, this masterpiece counts the human cost of British-occupied India, a society afflicted by imperialism and r… [more below]
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0593241568
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$18.00 Add to cartRilke’s Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before hi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0679642323
- Language: English
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
$11.00 Read moreIntroduction by A. S. Byatt
Illustrations by John Tenniel
Includes commissioned endnotes
Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Ali- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0375761381
- Language: English
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Essential Feminist Reader
$20.00 Add to cartIncluding: Susan B. Anthony Simone de Beauvoir W.E.B. Du Bois H l ne Cixous Betty Friedan Charlotte Perkins Gilman Emma Goldman Guerrilla Girls Ding Ling – Audre Lorde John Stuart Mill Christine de Pi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Freedman, Estelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0812974603
- Language: English
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On the Natural History of Destruction
$21.00 Add to cartDuring World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died–a figure twice that of all America… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sebald, W. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0375756574
- Language: English
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
$22.00 Read moreCompiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Ellison, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968263
- Language: English
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Jane Eyre
$9.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Diane Johnson
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Grea
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Rigby, George Saintsbury, and Anthony Trollope- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783326
- Language: English
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The Korean War: A History
$22.00 Add to cartA BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED
For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Cumings, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 12 2011
- ISBN10: 081297896X
- Language: English
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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 2
$21.00 Read morePlutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by fa… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756779
- Language: English
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The Age of Innocence
$11.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the c- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 02 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753206
- Language: English
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Hunting Trips of a Ranchman & the Wilderness Hunter
$20.00 Add to cartWritten during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Bad Lands, these two wilderness tales by Theodore Roosevelt endure today as part of the classic folklore of the West. The narratives provide vivid p… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: May 12 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751521
- Language: English
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Trouble with Lichen
$19.00 Add to cartA “sharp, amusing story” (The Guardian) about the fountain of youth and its implications for women’s rights, by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant–and neglected–science fiction and horror… [more below]
- Author: Wyndham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 593450140
- Language: English
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The Midwich Cuckoos
$18.00 Add to cartA genre-defining tale of first contact by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant–and neglected–science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction… [more below]
- Author: Wyndham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593450124
- Language: English
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The Greek Histories: The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch
$23.00 Read moreFrom the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chron… [more below]
- Author: Lefkowitz, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1984854321
- Language: English
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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
$18.00 Add to cartGathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagin… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Yeats, William Butler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968557
- Language: English
