Modern Library Torchbearers
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Nothing Grows by Moonlight
$17.00 Add to cartFirst published in Norway in 1947, this “breathtakingly powerful” (The Guardian) novel of one woman’s soul-shattering love affair introduces a major twentieth-century international writer to an Americ… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Nedreaas, Torborg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217155118
- Language: English
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Nada
$20.00 Add to cartRenowned as Spain’s The Catcher in the Rye, a passionate coming-of-age novel that follows a rebellious young woman as she uncovers her family’s secrets in chaotic, polarized post-Civil War Barcelona … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Laforet, Carmen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0812975839
- Language: English
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Find Him!
$19.00 Add to cartAn uncanny novel which provides keen insight on patriarchal violence and female identity by the author of feminist cult classic The Princess of 72nd Street
With an introduction by Violet Kupersmith Un- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Kraf, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593731913
- Language: English
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Lolly Willowes: Or, the Loving Huntsman
$17.00 Add to cartA satirical feminist classic about a woman who leaves her stifling place in her brother’s London home for the wilds of the English countryside, where she meets and makes a deal with the devil himself-… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Townsend Warner, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593449320
- Language: English
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
$17.00 Add to cartThe literary classic that inspired the iconic Marilyn Monroe film–a brilliant satire of the Roaring Twenties that follows a wide-eyed blonde and her cynical brunette friend as they take Europe by sto… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Loos, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0593445821
- Language: English
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The House of Madelaine
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the cult-favorite feminist author of The Princess of 72nd Street, a classic novel about a captive woman who must use unorthodox methods to reclaim her fractured mind
The dimensions of this house- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Kraf, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0593731883
- Language: English
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Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
$17.00 Add to cartA rediscovered classic from the Harlem Renaissance about a young Black woman’s journey passing as white in 1920s New York City and her quest for self-acceptance–with an introduction by Glory Edim, fo… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Fauset, Jessie Redmon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0593731956
- Language: English
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The Awakening
$9.00 Read moreA new edition of Kate Chopin’s controversial masterpiece, an essential novel in the canon of early feminism–with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado, award-winning author of Her Body and Other Pa… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Chopin, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1984854364
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$15.00 Add to cartThe unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women–with an introduction by Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried and National… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593230361
- Language: English
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Passing
$16.00 Read moreNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING TESSA THOMPSON AND RUTH NEGGA
Two women in 1920s New York discover how fluid and dangerous our perceptions of race can be in this electrifying classic of the Harlem- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Larsen, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0375758135
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation – The electrifying collected works of “one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets in early twentieth-century Japan” (The New Yorker). … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Sagawa, Chika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0593230019
- Language: English
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Villette
$14.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Jane Eyre, a strikingly modern story of a young woman starting over–with an introduction by Weike Wang, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of Chemistry
“Villette Villette Have y- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 037575850X
- Language: English
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Persuasion
$7.00 Read moreJane Austen’s last completed novel, a brilliantly insightful story of regret, second chances, and the courage to follow our hearts
Anne Elliot is twenty-seven and unmarried–by all accounts a spinster- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757295
- Language: English
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The Return of the Soldier
$15.00 Add to cartA soldier returns home transformed by World War I, sending shock waves through the lives of three women, in Rebecca West’s groundbreaking debut novel
Jenny has been waiting for the return of her cousi- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: West, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0812971221
- Language: English
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The Princess of 72nd Street
$17.00 Add to cartA provocative and thoroughly feminist “cult classic” (The New Yorker) about a smart and sensitive yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own terms–now returning to print for the firs… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Kraf, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593731824
- Language: English
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The Princess of 72nd Street
$27.00 Read moreA provocative and thoroughly feminist “cult classic” (The New Yorker) about a smart and sensitive yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own terms–now returning to print for the firs… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Kraf, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 593731808
- Language: English
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The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
$16.00 Add to cartAn indispensable collection of the groundbreaking poet’s most masterful and innovative work, celebrating a bold early voice of female liberation, independence, and queer sexuality–featuring a new int… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Millay, Edna St Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0375761233
- Language: English
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Quicksand
$15.00 Read moreA classic novel of identity, sexuality, religion, and race by the author of Passing, hailed as “an original and hugely insightful writer” by The New York Times–with an introduction by Asali Solomon, … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Larsen, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0593730275
- Language: English
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Regiment of Women
$16.00 Add to cartObsessive friendships lead to tragedy in this early-twentieth-century novel about a charismatic schoolmistress, a na?e new teacher, and an impressionable student–with an afterword by Melissa Broder, … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Dane, Clemence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0593244052
- Language: English
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Wuthering Heights
$10.00 Add to cartThe classic tale of tormented love and the inexorable pull of the past, from one of history’s greatest literary talents, with an introduction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, New York Times bestselling author… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Bront?, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0593244036
- Language: English
