Modern Library Classics
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The Portrait of a Lady
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, “affront her destiny.” James began The Portrait of a Lady wi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: February 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759190
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$24.00 Add to cart“My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, ” is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait o… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0812970314
- Language: English
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The Ambassadors
$19.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Colm T ib n
One of the final masterpieces from one of the world’s greatest authors, Henry James’s The Ambassadors is now available for the first time in a Modern Library edition, with- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0812982703
- Language: English
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang & to Build a Fire
$10.00 Add to cartThe Call of the Wild–Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world,” E. L. Doctorow wrote in Th- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 1998
- ISBN10: 037575251X
- Language: English
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In Search of Lost Time
$100.00 Add to cartFor this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definiti… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 6
- Publish Date: June 03 2003
- ISBN10: 0812969642
- Language: English
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The Monk
$13.00 Add to cartWhen Matthew Lewis’s The Monk was published in 1796, readers were shocked by this gripping and horrific novel. Lewis’s story, which drove the House of Commons–of which he was a member–to deem him li… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Lewis, Matthew Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759166
- Language: English
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Hadji Murad
$22.00 Add to cartIn 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Mur d, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967119
- Language: English
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
$20.00 Add to cartEdited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley
In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he
Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Equiano, Olaudah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 11 2004
- ISBN10: 0375761152
- Language: English
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Troilus and Cressida
$19.00 Add to cartOften called the first great English novel, Troilus and Cressida, a tragic love story set during the siege of Troy, is Chaucer’s masterpiece. Troilus, a valiant warrior, is scornful of love until he c… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375757368
- Language: English
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Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
$10.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Wendy Steiner – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley, while staying in the Swiss Alps with her lover Pe- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 26 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753419
- Language: English
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Father Brown: The Essential Tales
$17.00 Add to cartG. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man’s frailties-gained during his years l… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0812972228
- Language: English
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Leaves of Grass: The Death-Bed Edition
$16.00 Read more- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783423
- Language: English
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The Importance of Being Earnest: And Other Plays
$12.00 Read moreOscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, comic masterpieces of all time, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, in 1895. Considered one of the greatest THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is a farce… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0812967143
- Language: English
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In Search of Lost Time: Within a Budding Grove V. 2 (Revised)
$22.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhoo… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0375752196
- Language: English
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The House of the Seven Gables
$11.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne’s defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cur… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756876
- Language: English
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Ethan Frome & Summer
$14.00 Read moreA pair of masterly short novels, featuring an introduction by Elizabeth Strout, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Anything Is Possible and My Name Is Lucy Barton
Thought Edith Wharton is best know- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757287
- Language: English
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
$12.00 Read moreSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING THE CROWN‘S EMMA CORRIN AND UNBROKEN‘S JACK O’CONNELL
Introduction by Kathryn Harrison Inspired by the long-standing affair between D. H. Lawrence’s German- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375758003
- Language: English
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Robinson Crusoe
$10.00 Read more- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757325
- Language: English
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
$11.00 Read moreIntroduction by A. S. Byatt
Illustrations by John Tenniel
Includes commissioned endnotes
Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Ali- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0375761381
- Language: English
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
$22.00 Read moreCompiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Ellison, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968263
- Language: English
