Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
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Anne of Green Gables
$11.00 Read moreIntroduction by Jack Zipes – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
“Matthew had taken the scrawny little hand awkwardly in his; then and there he decided wha- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Montgomery, L. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0812979036
- Language: English
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Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems
$25.00 Read moreEdited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon
Derived from the Modern Library’s esteemed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this new volume, extensively revise- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Milton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0812983718
- Language: English
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The Annals & The Histories
$21.00 Add to cartCornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tacitus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0812966996
- Language: English
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The Gilded Age
$24.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Ron Powers
Arguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that explod
Includes Newly Commissioned Endnotes- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0812973569
- Language: English
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The Hellenistic Age: A Short History
$20.00 Add to cartThe Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity’s great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Green’s remarkably far-ranging stu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Green, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0812967402
- 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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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
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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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Life on the Mississippi
$19.00 Add to cartFashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0375759379
- 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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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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The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison
$22.00 Add to cartIn 1787, the American union was in disarray. The incompatible demands of the separate states threatened its existence; some states were even in danger of turning into the kind of tyranny they had so r… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Madison, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2005
- ISBN10: 0812975170
- 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 Temptation of Saint Anthony
$21.00 Add to cartA book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert’s lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759123
- Language: English
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The Pickwick Papers
$23.00 Add to cartCharles Dickens’s satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836-37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the membe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 779
- Publish Date: August 12 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967275
- Language: English
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The Ox-Bow Incident
$20.00 Add to cartSet in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757023
- 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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Metamorphosis PB
$16.00 Add to cartTranslated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold
“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he foun
Featuring essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0812985141
- Language: English
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The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
$20.00 Add to cartThis clear and comprehensive anthology, culled from the vast corpus of Christian mystical literature by the renowned theologian and historian Bernard McGinn, presents nearly one hundred selections, fr… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: McGinn, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 12, 2006
- ISBN10: 0812974212
- Language: English
