Modern Library Classics
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche PB
$23.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783393
- Language: English
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Swann’s Way
$20.00 Add to cartIn Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator’s childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: June 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751548
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
$18.00 Add to cartThis collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky’s key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in h… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756884
- Language: English
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War and Peace
$25.00 Add to cartIntroduction by A. N. Wilson – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Na- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1424
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760644
- Language: English
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David Copperfield
$12.00 Add to cartHugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens’s own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heart… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783415
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$6.95 Add to cartThis Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlight- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0345478231
- Language: English
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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 1: The Dryden Translation
$20.00 Add to cartPlutarch’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: 816
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756760
- Language: English
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The Waste Land and Other Writings
$12.00 Add to cartAlso includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of th… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759344
- Language: English
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
$30.00 Read moreFrom the renowned author of Invisible Man, a classic, “elegant” (The New York Times) collection of essays that captures the breadth and complexity of his insights into racial identity, jazz and folkl… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Ellison, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0593730062
- Language: English
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The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time.
“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest myster- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0525509844
- Language: English
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Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real
$18.00 Add to cartCelia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated i… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Zapata, Celia Correas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967070
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice
$9.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Anna Quindlen
Commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by P… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783261
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations
$22.00 Add to cartAdam Smith’s masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitali
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: November 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783369
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
$9.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Jeffrey Eugenides – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionabl- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751513
- Language: English
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
$25.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Mary Oliver
The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and
Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783229
- Language: English
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de Profundis
$13.00 Add to cartWritten from Wilde’s prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of D… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 12, 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783210
- Language: English
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Crossing to Safety
$19.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Terry Tempest Williams
Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book
Afterword by T. H. Watkins- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 09 2002
- ISBN10: 037575931X
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Letter
$8.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Kathryn Harrison
A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter
Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 19, 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783385
- Language: English
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The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
$25.00 Add to cartA landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, El… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Lefkowitz, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0812983092
- Language: English
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The Basic Works of Aristotle
$26.00 Add to cartEdited by Richard McKeon, with an introduction by C.D.C. Reeve
Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and reli- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1520
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757996
- Language: English
