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Breakfast at Tiffany’s & Other Voices, Other Rooms
$26.00 Add to cartFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote–also available are In Cold Blood, Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories
Together in one- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0812994361
- Language: English
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The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
$20.00 Add to cartThe earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer–recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars–sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarcerat… [more below]
- Author: Reed, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0812986911
- Language: English
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The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text with Faulkner’s Appendix
$24.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time – One of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600175
- 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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Dubliners
$12.00 Add to cartIntroduction by John Banville
James Joyce was the singular figure of modernism, and to this day his grand vision looms large over contemporary literature and the entire Western canon. His stylistic- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0812983017
- Language: English
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The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
$20.00 Add to cartFrom a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surprising and thought-provoking treatise on everything from prayer to poetry to puff pastry. In The Supper… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Food
- Author: Capon, Robert Farrar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 02 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760563
- 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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California (a History)
$23.00 Add to cart“A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answ… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Starr, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 081297753X
- Language: English
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Metamorphosis PB
$16.00 Add to cartTranslated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold
“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he foun
Featuring essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0812985141
- Language: English
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The Betrothed
$0.00 Read more“The first English translation in more than fifty years of Alessandro Manzoni’s masterpiece, a work of foundational Italian literature on par with the Divine Comedy and the Decameron.”–The Wall Stree
- Author: Manzoni, Alessandro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0679643567
- Language: English
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The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
$20.00 Add to cartThis clear and comprehensive anthology, culled from the vast corpus of Christian mystical literature by the renowned theologian and historian Bernard McGinn, presents nearly one hundred selections, fr… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: McGinn, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 12, 2006
- ISBN10: 0812974212
- 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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Invisible Man
$26.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Invisible Man is a milestone in American lit- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Ellison, Ralph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0679601392
- Language: English
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Inferno
$8.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary new verse translation of Dante’s masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen
Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most- Series: Modern Library Classics (Mass Market)
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 25, 2005
- ISBN10: 034548357X
- Language: English
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Out of Africa
$27.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
- Author: Dinesen, Isak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600213
- 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
