Modern Library Classics
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Cousin Bette
$21.00 Add to cart“Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying,” wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac’s La Com?die Humaine, Cousin Bette is the… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Balzac, Honoré de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759077
- Language: English
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The Duel
$16.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 081297008X
- Language: English
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Mansfield Park
$18.00 Add to cartThrough Fanny Price, the heroine of Mansfield Park, Jane Austen views the social mores of her day and contemplates human nature itself. A shy and sweet-tempered girl adopted by wealthy relations, Fann… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757813
- Language: English
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Common Sense: And Other Writings
$15.00 Add to cartIncludes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of Reason (part one); Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, published anonymously and just discovered to be Paine’s… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Paine, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0375760113
- Language: English
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The Charterhouse of Parma
$22.00 Add to cartRichard Howard’s exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal’s stirring tale has brought about the rediscovery of this classic by modern readers. Stendhal narrates a young aristocrat’s adventures i… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Stendhal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783180
- Language: English
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My First Summer in the Sierra
$14.00 Read moreJohn Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become a famed conservationist when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, not long after the Civil War. He was so captivated by w… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 353
- Publish Date: November 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968654
- Language: English
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
$19.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work of early feminism that extends … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757228
- Language: English
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
$20.00 Add to cartThe Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature’ s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book’s eponymous character… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 06 2009
- ISBN10: 081298045X
- Language: English
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Clotel: Or, the President’s Daughter
$19.00 Add to cartThe first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Brown, William Wells
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0679783237
- Language: English
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Riders of the Purple Sage
$20.00 Add to cartTold by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, “combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture,” Riders of the Purpl… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Grey, Zane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0812966120
- Language: English
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The Canterbury Tales
$24.00 Add to cartBeyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language-and for good reason: It is lively,… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0812978455
- Language: English
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
$26.00 Add to cartIntroduction and Notes by Robert Folkenflik
Rich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman provoked- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Sterne, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 21 2004
- ISBN10: 0375761195
- Language: English
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Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
$22.00 Add to cartSelected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworth’s prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late “Yarrow Rev… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wordsworth, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: February 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759417
- Language: English
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The Betrothed
$20.00 Add to cartItaly’s greatest novel and a masterpiece of world literature, The Betrothed chronicles the unforgettable romance of Renzo and Lucia, who endure tyranny, war, famine, and plague to be together.
Publish- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Manzoni, Alessandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0812978811
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$21.00 Add to cartConsidered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy’s classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: October 10 2000
- ISBN10: 067978330X
- Language: English
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Far from the Madding Crowd
$17.00 Add to cartFar from the Madding Crowd, Hardy’s passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular noveli… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 11 2001
- ISBN10: 037575797X
- Language: English
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Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
$22.00 Add to cartFeaturing the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her master’s baby, and the clever Pudd’nhead Wilson, an ostracized small-town… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0812966228
- Language: English
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The War of the Worlds
$15.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Arthur C. Clarke
Commentary by Jules Verne and an anonymous reviewer from The Critic
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being wat… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759239
- Language: English
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The Idiot
$18.00 Add to cartReturning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women the notorious kept woman Nastasya and … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0679642420
- Language: English
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Treasure Island
$17.00 Add to cart- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756825
- Language: English
