Modern Library
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Swann’s Way
$20.00 Add to cartIn Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator’s childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: June 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751548
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
$18.00 Add to cartThis collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky’s key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in h… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756884
- Language: English
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War and Peace
$22.00 Add to cartIntroduction by A. N. Wilson – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Na- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1424
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760644
- Language: English
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Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale
$17.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Elizabeth Hardwick
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiec
Illustrations by Rockwell Kent- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: October 10 2000
- ISBN10: 067978327X
- Language: English
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David Copperfield
$12.00 Add to cartHugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens’s own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heart… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783415
- Language: English
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Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
$25.00 Add to cartGonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels–Hell’s Angels, that is–in this short work of nonfiction.
“California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 07, 1999
- ISBN10: 067960331X
- Language: English
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Paradise
$18.00 Add to cart“If there is any justice in the world of books, Esolen’s] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come.”-Robert Royal, Crisis
In this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante asce- Series: Divine Comedy
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0812977262
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$6.95 Add to cartThis Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlight- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0345478231
- Language: English
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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
$26.00 Read more” The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”–Chicago Sun-Times
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise- Series: Modern Library War
- Author: Toland, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968581
- Language: English
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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 1: The Dryden Translation
$20.00 Add to cartPlutarch’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: 816
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756760
- Language: English
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s & Other Voices, Other Rooms
$26.00 Add to cartFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote–also available are In Cold Blood, Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories
Together in one- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0812994361
- Language: English
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The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
$20.00 Add to cartThe earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer–recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars–sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarcerat… [more below]
- Author: Reed, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0812986911
- Language: English
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The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text with Faulkner’s Appendix
$24.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time – One of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600175
- Language: English
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The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time.
“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest myster- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0525509844
- Language: English
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Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real
$18.00 Add to cartCelia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated i… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Zapata, Celia Correas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967070
- Language: English
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Dubliners
$11.00 Add to cartIntroduction by John Banville
James Joyce was the singular figure of modernism, and to this day his grand vision looms large over contemporary literature and the entire Western canon. His stylistic- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0812983017
- Language: English
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The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
$20.00 Add to cartFrom a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surprising and thought-provoking treatise on everything from prayer to poetry to puff pastry. In The Supper… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Food
- Author: Capon, Robert Farrar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 02 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760563
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice
$9.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Anna Quindlen
Commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by P… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783261
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations
$22.00 Add to cartAdam Smith’s masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitali
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: November 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783369
- Language: English
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California (a History)
$23.00 Add to cart“A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answ… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Starr, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 081297753X
- Language: English
