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Meditations: A New Translation
$11.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “Meditations offers a glimpse into [Marcus Aurelius’s] mind, his habits, and his approach to life. . . . I think any reader would find something useful to take away from it.”–Ja
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06, 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968255
- Language: English
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King Kong
$5.95 Read moreIntroduction by Greg Bear
The giant prehistoric gorilla King Kong is one of the most recognized images in our culture. So great is the mighty Kong’s hold on the popular imag
Preface by Mark Cotta Vaz- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wallace, Edgar
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0345484967
- Language: English
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Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History
$20.00 Add to cartAcclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public deba… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: MacMillan, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0812979966
- Language: English
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The Custom of the Country
$22.00 Add to cartThe classic satire of New York society and the American Dream through the misadventures of an insatiable young striver–with an introduction by Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror
Ambitious and whol- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375758070
- Language: English
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Kidnapped: Or, the Lad with the Silver Button
$18.00 Add to cart- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757252
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
$19.00 Add to cartA definitive, exquisite collection of stories exploring class, relationships, and the beauty and banality of ordinary life by an underappreciated master of the form, with an introduction by bestsellin… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Mansfield, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0593979567
- Language: English
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A Quiet Place
$19.00 Read moreAn artfully twisty psychological mystery from Seichō Matsumoto, hailed as “Japan’s Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times), exploring the corrosive power of jealousy, guilt, and doubt
While on an imp- Author: Matsumoto, Seicho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0593979087
- Language: English
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The Bottom of the Harbor
$29.00 Add to cartA classic of literary reporting from one of The New Yorker‘s most iconic writers reveals the vibrant world of old New York and the ordinary people who made it great, now with illustrations by renowned… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0593594959
- Language: English
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Memory House
$18.00 Add to cartThe never-before-published final novel by cult feminist author Elaine Kraf, exploring what happens when a drained writer fakes her death and joins a mysterious club for failing artists
Once the darlin- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Kraf, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217153749
- Language: English
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Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir
$32.00 Read moreA newly discovered firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath from one of the survivors–bringing unprecedented immediacy to our understanding of this world-changing event.
“A stunni- Author: Tanimoto, Kiyoshi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217197972
- Language: English
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The Sea-Wolf
$19.00 Add to cart- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783377
- Language: English
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Henry IV, Part 2
$14.00 Add to cartAfter defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. But Prince Hal’s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroy the ailing Henry IV’s dream of a lasting dynasty. Shakespeare’s portr… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0812969251
- Language: English
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Twelfth Night
$16.00 Add to cartA pair of twins are separated by a shipwreck, each believing the other has drowned. A lovesick duke woos a countess deep in mourning for her brother, while her rowdy household plots the downfall of he… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0812969235
- Language: English
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Klondike Tales
$21.00 Add to cartAs a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London’… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 13 2001
- ISBN10: 037575685X
- Language: English
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The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology’s Greatest Mystery
$24.00 Add to cartJ. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?
At its heart,- Author: Adovasio, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 17 2003
- ISBN10: 037575704X
- Language: English
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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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My Uncle Napoleon
$19.00 Add to cartThe most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century
“God forbid, I’ve fallen in love with Layli!” So begins the farce of our narrator’s life, one spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded ov- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Pezeshkzad, Iraj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0812974433
- Language: English
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The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen’s Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated
$22.00 Add to cartAt the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Exploration
- Author: Huntford, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0375754741
- Language: English
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The Land of Little Rain
$21.00 Add to cart-Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite–east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert- is the territory that Mary A… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Austin, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968522
- Language: English
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Fathers and Sons
$19.00 Add to cartWhen Fathers and Sons was first published in Russia, in 1862, it was met with a blaze of controversy about where Turgenev stood in relation to his account of generational misunderstanding. Was he crit… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Turgenev, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375758399
- Language: English
