Modern Library Classics
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Meditations: A New Translation
$11.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “Meditations offers a glimpse into [Marcus Aurelius’s] mind, his habits, and his approach to life. . . . I think any reader would find something useful to take away from it.”–Ja
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06, 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968255
- Language: English
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King Kong
$5.95 Read moreIntroduction by Greg Bear
The giant prehistoric gorilla King Kong is one of the most recognized images in our culture. So great is the mighty Kong’s hold on the popular imag
Preface by Mark Cotta Vaz- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wallace, Edgar
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0345484967
- Language: English
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Hard Times
$18.00 Add to cartDickens’s widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution.
Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens, such as the unwave- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 10 2001
- ISBN10: 067964217X
- Language: English
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Letters on Life: New Prose Translations
$22.00 Add to cartGleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous, never-before-translated correspondence, this volume offers the best writings and personal philosophy of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets. The… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0812969022
- Language: English
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Jude the Obscure
$20.00 Add to cartUpon its first appearance in 1895, Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure shocked Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the institutions of marriage… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757414
- Language: English
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Howards End
$14.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz.
At its heart lie two families–the wealthy and business- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 10 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753761
- Language: English
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Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
$23.00 Add to cartWere Thomas Jefferson alive to read this book, he would recognize every sentence, every elegant turn of phrase, every lofty, beautifully expressed idea. Indeed, every word in the book is his. In an as… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Jefferson, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: June 14 2005
- ISBN10: 0812974328
- Language: English
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The Mountains of California
$22.00 Add to cartWhen John Muir traveled to California in 1868, he found the pristine mountain ranges that would inspire his life’s work. The Mountains of California is the culmination of the ten years Muir spent in t… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375758194
- Language: English
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Kidnapped: Or, the Lad with the Silver Button
$18.00 Add to cart- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757252
- Language: English
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The Sea-Wolf
$19.00 Add to cart- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783377
- Language: English
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Henry IV, Part 2
$14.00 Add to cartAfter defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. But Prince Hal’s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroy the ailing Henry IV’s dream of a lasting dynasty. Shakespeare’s portr… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0812969251
- Language: English
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Twelfth Night
$16.00 Add to cartA pair of twins are separated by a shipwreck, each believing the other has drowned. A lovesick duke woos a countess deep in mourning for her brother, while her rowdy household plots the downfall of he… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0812969235
- Language: English
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Klondike Tales
$21.00 Add to cartAs a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London’… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 13 2001
- ISBN10: 037575685X
- Language: English
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The Land of Little Rain
$21.00 Add to cart-Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite–east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert- is the territory that Mary A… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Austin, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968522
- Language: English
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Fathers and Sons
$19.00 Add to cartWhen Fathers and Sons was first published in Russia, in 1862, it was met with a blaze of controversy about where Turgenev stood in relation to his account of generational misunderstanding. Was he crit… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Turgenev, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375758399
- Language: English
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The Blithedale Romance
$18.00 Add to cartThe Blithedale Romance, considered one of Hawthorne’s major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against an experiment in communal living. From mesmerism to illicit love, The Blithedal… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757201
- Language: English
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Little Women
$18.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Susan Cheever
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Katherine Fullerton Gerould, and Madeleine B. Stern
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
It i… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756728
- Language: English
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Julius Caesar
$12.00 Add to cart“It must be by his death.”
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this masterpiece of political power play and manipulation–alon
—Julius Caesar- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0812969367
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain
$24.00 Add to cartThis unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumpi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0812971183
- Language: English
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The Sea-Wolf
$19.00 Add to cart- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783377
- Language: English
