Modern Library Classics
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Madame Bovary
$19.00 Add to cartA new translation by Adam Thorpe
Gustave Flaubert once said of his heroine, “Emma Bovary, c’est moi.” In this acclaimed new translation, Adam Thorpe brings readers closer than ever before to Flaubert- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0812985206
- Language: English
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The Lost World
$20.00 Add to cartIn The Lost World, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger–a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction–Challenger and his party … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967259
- Language: English
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The Sonnets and Other Poems
$16.00 Add to cartShakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language’s most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions-desire an… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0812969200
- Language: English
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The Red Badge of Courage & the Veteran
$19.00 Add to cartOne of the greatest works of American literature, The Red Badge of Courage gazes fearlessly into the bright hell of war through the eyes of one young soldier, the reluctant Henry Fleming. Written by S… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Crane, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783202
- Language: English
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The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
$23.00 Add to cartFrom “A Scandal in Bohemia,” in which Sherlock Holmes is famously outwitted by a woman, the captivating Irene Adler, to “The Five Orange Pips,” in which the master detective is pitted against the Ku K… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760024
- Language: English
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The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man’s Recreation
$19.00 Add to cartAn immediate success when if was first published in 1653, Walton’s classic celebrtion of the joys of fishing continues to captivate anglers and nature lovers with its timeless advice and instruction. … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Walton, Izaak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 26 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751483
- Language: English
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Mosses from an Old Manse
$22.00 Add to cartMosses from an Old Manse is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s second story collection, first published in 1846 in two volumes and featuring sketches and tales written over a span of more than twenty years, includ… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812966058
- Language: English
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The Song of Roland
$17.00 Add to cartA contemporary prose rendering of the great medieval French epic, The Song of Roland is as canonical and significant as the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf. It extols the chivalric ideals in the France of Charlem… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Merwin, W. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757112
- Language: English
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The Prince and the Pauper
$18.00 Add to cartSet in sixteenth-century England, Mark Twain’s classic “tale for young people of all ages” features two identical-looking boys–a prince and a pauper–who trade clothes and step into each other’s live… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0375761128
- Language: English
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
$18.00 Add to cartHank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan bri… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757805
- Language: English
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States
$24.00 Add to cartThe series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in 1787 and 1788 by… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757864
- Language: English
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
$10.00 Add to cart- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757910
- Language: English
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Candide: or, Optimism
$19.00 Add to cartIn this splendid new translation of Voltaire’s satiric masterpiece, all the celebrated wit, irony, and trenchant social commentary of one of the great works of the Enlightenment is restored and refres… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0812972015
- Language: English
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
$15.00 Add to cart“Why, then the world’s mine oyster.”
—The Merry Wives of Windsor
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love, laughter, a… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0812969324
- Language: English
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Henry VI: Parts I, II, and III
$19.00 Add to cart“The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea.”
–Henry VI
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of the three-part … [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0812969405
- Language: English
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The Bostonians
$17.00 Add to cartThis brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to contr… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812969960
- Language: English
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A Hero of Our Time
$23.00 Add to cartIn its adventurous happenings-its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues-A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Lermontov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0812970764
- Language: English
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The Innocents Abroad: Or, the New Pilgrims’ Progress
$25.00 Add to cartThe Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967054
- Language: English
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$8.00 Add to cartIntroduction by George Saunders
”All modern American literature comes from one book by
Commentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant, Bernard DeVoto, Clifton Fadiman, T. S. Eliot, and Leo Marx- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757376
- Language: English
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The Confidence-Man
$20.00 Add to cart“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the r… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 037575802X
- Language: English
