Modern Library Classics
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Jane Eyre
$9.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Diane Johnson
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Grea
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Rigby, George Saintsbury, and Anthony Trollope- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783326
- Language: English
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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 2
$21.00 Read morePlutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by fa… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756779
- Language: English
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Hunting Trips of a Ranchman & the Wilderness Hunter
$20.00 Add to cartWritten during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Bad Lands, these two wilderness tales by Theodore Roosevelt endure today as part of the classic folklore of the West. The narratives provide vivid p… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: May 12 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751521
- Language: English
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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
$18.00 Add to cartGathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagin… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Yeats, William Butler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968557
- Language: English
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The City of God
$30.00 Add to cartOne of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern Western society and the origin of most Western … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Augustine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0679600876
- Language: English
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Basic Writings of Kant
$20.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Allen W. Wood
The writings of Immanuel Kant became the cornerstone of all subsequent philosophical inquiry. They articulate the r
With translations by F. Max M ller and Thomas K. Abbott- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757333
- Language: English
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
$16.00 Add to cartWith his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the most memorable characters in fiction, from Rip Van W… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Irving, Washington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 037575721X
- Language: English
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
$19.00 Add to cartThis Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne’s great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” “The Extasie,” and “A Noctu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Donne, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757341
- Language: English
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The City of God
$18.00 Add to cartOne of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern Western society and the origin of most Western … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Augustine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783199
- Language: English
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche
$30.00 Add to cartThis captivating collection brings together five of Friedrich Nietzche’s most important philosophical works, exploring themes such as nihilism, metaphysics, and the nature of morality–featuring an in… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600000
- Language: English
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
$13.00 Add to cartWritten in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the earliest scientific romances. An instant sensation, it was meant as a commentary on Darwin’s theory of evolution, which H. G. Wells stoutly beli… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760962
- Language: English
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Tales, Poems, and Other Writings
$29.00 Add to cartFrom short masterpieces like “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Billy Budd” to more obscure, even completely unknown works like the epic poem “Clarel,” Melville’s stories and poems rank among his greatest … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375757120
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Island
$23.00 Add to cartBased on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Verne, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: December 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0812966422
- Language: English
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The Warden
$19.00 Add to cartThe first of Trollope’s popular Barsetshire novels, set in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester, The Warden centers on the honorable cleric Septimus Harding, one of Trollope’s most memorable cha… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967046
- Language: English
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The Kreutzer Sonata
$12.00 Read moreWhen Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kr… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968239
- Language: English
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Great Expectations
$11.00 Read moreIntroduction by George Bernard Shaw – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757015
- Language: English
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Middlemarch
$12.00 Add to cartOne of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of ferven… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: October 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783318
- Language: English
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
$19.00 Add to cartFull of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Burton, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756752
- Language: English
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The Gambler
$21.00 Add to cartIn this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through t… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0812966937
- Language: English
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Oliver Twist
$17.00 Add to cartDickens’s classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England’s Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgetta… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0375757848
- Language: English
