Modern Library
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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
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Suspicion
$17.00 Add to cartA taut psychological thriller about the hidden demons that guide our convictions, our biases, and our deepest desires, available in English for the first time from “Japan’s Agatha Christie.” (The Sund… [more below]
- Author: Matsumoto, Seicho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593979060
- Language: English
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The Blithedale Romance
$18.00 Add to cartThe Blithedale Romance, considered one of Hawthorne’s major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against an experiment in communal living. From mesmerism to illicit love, The Blithedal… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757201
- Language: English
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Little Women
$18.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Susan Cheever
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Katherine Fullerton Gerould, and Madeleine B. Stern
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
It i… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756728
- Language: English
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Julius Caesar
$12.00 Add to cart“It must be by his death.”
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this masterpiece of political power play and manipulation–alon
—Julius Caesar- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0812969367
- Language: English
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Law in America: A Short History
$22.00 Add to cartThroughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of the subject’s great… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Friedman, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0812972856
- Language: English
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Baseball: A History of America’s Favorite Game
$20.00 Add to cart“Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey’s book proves it, without wasting a word.”–Lee Eisenbe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Vecsey, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0812978706
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain
$24.00 Add to cartThis unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumpi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0812971183
- 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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Madame Bovary
$19.00 Add to cartA new translation by Adam Thorpe
Gustave Flaubert once said of his heroine, “Emma Bovary, c’est moi.” In this acclaimed new translation, Adam Thorpe brings readers closer than ever before to Flaubert- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0812985206
- Language: English
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The Lost World
$20.00 Add to cartIn The Lost World, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger–a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction–Challenger and his party … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967259
- Language: English
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The Sonnets and Other Poems
$16.00 Add to cartShakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language’s most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions-desire an… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0812969200
- Language: English
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The Boys’ Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945
$19.00 Add to cartThe Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author’s own… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Fussell, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0812974883
- Language: English
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The Red Badge of Courage & the Veteran
$19.00 Add to cartOne of the greatest works of American literature, The Red Badge of Courage gazes fearlessly into the bright hell of war through the eyes of one young soldier, the reluctant Henry Fleming. Written by S… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Crane, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783202
- Language: English
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The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from the New Yorker
$23.00 Add to cartFor more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine
- Author: Remnick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0812979982
- Language: English
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The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man’s Recreation
$19.00 Add to cartAn immediate success when if was first published in 1653, Walton’s classic celebrtion of the joys of fishing continues to captivate anglers and nature lovers with its timeless advice and instruction. … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Walton, Izaak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 26 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751483
- Language: English
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Mosses from an Old Manse
$22.00 Add to cartMosses from an Old Manse is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s second story collection, first published in 1846 in two volumes and featuring sketches and tales written over a span of more than twenty years, includ… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812966058
- Language: English
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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945
$28.00 Add to cartDestined to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel’s Night as one of the great classics of the Holocaust, I Will Bear Witness is a timeless work of literature, the most eloqu… [more below]
- Series: I Will Bear Witness #2
- Author: Klemperer, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 03 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756973
- Language: English
