Modern Library
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The Prince and the Pauper
$18.00 Add to cartSet in sixteenth-century England, Mark Twain’s classic “tale for young people of all ages” features two identical-looking boys–a prince and a pauper–who trade clothes and step into each other’s live… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0375761128
- 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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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
$18.00 Add to cartHank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan bri… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757805
- Language: English
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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941
$22.00 Read moreThe publication of Victor Klemperer’s secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. “In its cool, lucid style and power of observation,” said The New York … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback) #1
- Author: Klemperer, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753788
- Language: English
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Black No More
$22.00 Add to cartModern Library Harlem Renaissance
What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned white? Would everybody be happy? These questions and more are answered hilariously in Black No- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Schuyler, George S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 29 1999
- ISBN10: 037575380X
- Language: English
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States
$24.00 Add to cartThe series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in 1787 and 1788 by… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757864
- Language: English
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
$10.00 Add to cart- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757910
- Language: English
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Candide: or, Optimism
$19.00 Add to cartIn this splendid new translation of Voltaire’s satiric masterpiece, all the celebrated wit, irony, and trenchant social commentary of one of the great works of the Enlightenment is restored and refres… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0812972015
- Language: English
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Tokyo Express
$18.00 Add to cartFrom “Japan’s Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times): A secluded bay. An apparent lovers’ suicide. And a pair of detectives with a nagging suspicion that the pieces don’t add up. Can you solve one of the… [more below]
- Author: Matsumoto, Seicho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0593979044
- Language: English
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The Alien and Sedition Acts
$20.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author and civil rights lawyer Qian Julie Wang introduces the highly controversial Alien and Sedition Acts, which have been used to justify the curtailing of basic freedoms … [more below]
- Author: Wang, Qian Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217155224
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers
$26.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham presents the brilliant and stirring essays in defense of the Constitution–written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison–that made the Am… [more below]
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217154555
- Language: English
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Henry VI: Parts I, II, and III
$19.00 Add to cart“The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea.”
–Henry VI
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of the three-part … [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0812969405
- Language: English
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The Bostonians
$17.00 Add to cartThis brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to contr… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812969960
- 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 Basic Writings of C. G. Jung
$27.00 Add to cartIn exploring the manifestations of human spiritual experience both in the imaginative activities of the individual and in the formation of mythologies and of religious symbolism in various cultures, C… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Jung, Carl G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 26 1993
- ISBN10: 067960071X
- Language: English
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A Hero of Our Time
$23.00 Add to cartIn its adventurous happenings-its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues-A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Lermontov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0812970764
- Language: English
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The Innocents Abroad: Or, the New Pilgrims’ Progress
$25.00 Add to cartThe Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967054
- Language: English
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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
$27.00 Add to cartThe New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing-food and drink memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons.
“To read this sparely elegant, moving port… [more below]- Author: Remnick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 081297641X
- Language: English
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The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints
$19.00 Read moreCould an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Exploration
- Author: Severin, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0375755241
- Language: English
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$8.00 Add to cartIntroduction by George Saunders
”All modern American literature comes from one book by
Commentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant, Bernard DeVoto, Clifton Fadiman, T. S. Eliot, and Leo Marx- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757376
- Language: English
