Modern Classics
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
$18.99 Add to cart“One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060883286
- Language: English
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Accidental Death of an Anarchist
$18.62 Add to cartIn its first two years of production in Italy, Dario Fo’s notorious Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world, and become
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Fo, Dario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0413156109
- Language: English
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The Oysters of Locmariaquer
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Award
“What an elegant book this is, starting with that most elegant of creatures, the Belon oyster. . . . [Clark’s] fantastic blending of science and art, history and journ
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Clark, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060887427
- Language: English
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Educating Rita
$18.62 Add to cartEducating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl’s hunger for education, is ‘simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Russell, Willy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0413767906
- Language: English
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Desdemona
$15.95 Read more‘This is a remarkable, challenging and bravely original work.’ The Guardian
Ripped from the world by her husband’s paranoia, Desdemona turns in death towards the memory of Barbary, the North African m- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: June 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1350428981
- Language: English
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Blithe Spirit
$15.95 Read more“Some of [Coward’s] most sparkling dialogue ever… This play is about something substantial – the way past relationships come back to haunt us – but it’s the gossamer-like nature of the piece, its sh
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Coward, Noël
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1350353493
- Language: English
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Anatomy of a Suicide
$18.95 Add to cart“Alice Birch’s new play is scored like a piece of music… It is an extraordinary echoing text, full of pain and strange beauty. The three stories play out simultaneously on stage, the dialogue from o
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Birch, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1350200778
- Language: English
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The Mountaintop
$15.95 Add to cartExactly one year ago, I stood in that crumbling pulpit in Riverside and shouted that this war would be our own violent undoing, freedom’s suicide . . . Well, I’ll tell you, there weren’t too many Amen
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Hall, Katori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: July 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1472587715
- Language: English
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Red
$18.62 Add to cart“Smart and scintillating. Red deftly conjures what most plays about artists don’t: The exhilaration of the act.” The New Yorker
Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening prese- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Logan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1350200441
- Language: English
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Three Dog Tales: Old Yeller/Sounder/Savage Sam
$14.99 Add to cartThree classic dog tales brought together in a single volume–Fred Gipson’s Old Yeller, its sequel Savage Sam, and William Armstrong’s Sounder.
Old Yeller (Winner of the Newbery Honor)
When his father
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Gipson, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0061367052
- Language: English
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Love Medicine
$20.00 Read more“The beauty of Love Medicine saves us from being completely devastated by its power.” — Toni Morrison
Set on a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Love Medicine–the first novel from master storyteller a
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Erdrich, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0062206311
- Language: English
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
$22.99 Add to cart“One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 006112009X
- Language: English
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To Kill a Mockingbird
$20.00 Add to cartVoted America’s Best-Loved Novel in PBS’s The Great American Read
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South–and the heroism of one man in the face of blin
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Lee, Harper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 23, 2006
- ISBN10: 0061120081
- Language: English
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Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath’s Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement
$19.99 Add to cart“Made up of poems that are so original in their style and so startlingly accomplished in their confessional voice that they helped change the direction of contemporary poetry, Ariel is a masterpiece.”
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Plath, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0060732601
- Language: English
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
$19.00 Add to cartA PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
A beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of the beloved American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.
Fro
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Smith, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 30, 2006
- ISBN10: 0061120073
- Language: English
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
$17.99 Add to cartA PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunat
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060838671
- Language: English
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The Bell Jar
$17.99 Add to cartOne of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels
A realistic and emotional novel about a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath.
“It is this p
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Plath, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02, 2005
- ISBN10: 0060837020
- Language: English
