Modern Library
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The Kraken Wakes
$17.00 Add to cartAn “ingenious, horrifying” (The Guardian) first contact story by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant–and neglected–science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best wr… [more below]
- Author: Wyndham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593450108
- Language: English
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The Fire Next Time
$22.00 Add to cartAt once a powerful evocation of his childhood in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, The Fire Next Time, which galvanized the nation in the early days of the C… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0679601511
- Language: English
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Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
$20.00 Add to cart“I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.” So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle, bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would argua… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0812968492
- Language: English
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The City of God
$28.00 Read moreOne of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern Western society and the origin of most Western … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Augustine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0679600876
- Language: English
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The Princess of 72nd Street
$27.00 Read moreA provocative and thoroughly feminist “cult classic” (The New Yorker) about a smart and sensitive yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own terms–now returning to print for the firs… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Kraf, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 593731808
- Language: English
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Basic Writings of Kant
$20.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Allen W. Wood
The writings of Immanuel Kant became the cornerstone of all subsequent philosophical inquiry. They articulate the r
With translations by F. Max M ller and Thomas K. Abbott- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757333
- Language: English
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
$27.00 Add to cartA “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, The Roman… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0679645616
- Language: English
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The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings
$22.00 Add to cartTranscendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteen… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Buell, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 10 2006
- ISBN10: 081297509X
- Language: English
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Bulfinch’s Mythology: Includes the Age of Fable, the Age of Chivalry & Legends of Charlemagne
$21.00 Add to cartFor almost a century and a half, Bulfinch’s Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myt… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Bulfinch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: August 11 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751475
- Language: English
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The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
$42.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Maya Angelou’s classic memoirs have had an enduring impact on American literature and culture. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on P… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: September 21 2004
- ISBN10: 0679643257
- Language: English
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Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1963
$25.00 Add to cartA matchless account of the Battle of Gettysburg, drawn from Shelby Foote’s landmark history of the Civil War
Shelby Foote’s monumental three-part chronicle, The Civil War: A Narrative, was hailed by- Series: Modern Library of the World’s Best Books
- Author: Foote, Shelby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 28 1994
- ISBN10: 0679601120
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems of John Keats
$24.00 Add to cart‘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 (Hardcover)
- Author: Keats, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 26 1994
- ISBN10: 0679601082
- Language: English
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The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom
$18.00 Read moreA riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: these are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.
- Author: Still, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1984855050
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
$24.00 Add to cartFriedrich Nietzsche’s most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is translated from the Germ… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 19 1995
- ISBN10: 679601759
- Language: English
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The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
$16.00 Add to cartAn indispensable collection of the groundbreaking poet’s most masterful and innovative work, celebrating a bold early voice of female liberation, independence, and queer sexuality–featuring a new int… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Millay, Edna St Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0375761233
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Edition
$22.00 Read moreEdited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller
Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the
Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin
Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi- Series: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1312
- Publish Date: August 12 2003
- ISBN10: 0375758119
- Language: English
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The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud
$26.00 Add to cartThis classic edition of The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud includes complete texts of six works that have profoundly influenced our understanding of human behavior, presented here in the translation … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: July 10 1995
- ISBN10: 067960166X
- Language: English
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Ethics: The Essential Writings
$21.00 Add to cartIn Ethics: The Essential Writings, philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Marino, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0812977785
- Language: English
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Paradise Lost
$12.00 Add to cartEdited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon
John Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free wi- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Milton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 09 2008
- ISBN10: 0375757961
- Language: English
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The City of God
$18.00 Add to cartOne of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern Western society and the origin of most Western … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Augustine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783199
- Language: English
