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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
$20.00 Add to cartCould 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
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The Confidence-Man
$20.00 Add to cart“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the r… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 037575802X
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
$21.00 Add to cart“Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying,” wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac’s La Com?die Humaine, Cousin Bette is the… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Balzac, Honoré de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759077
- Language: English
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The Duel
$16.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 081297008X
- Language: English
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Mansfield Park
$18.00 Add to cartThrough Fanny Price, the heroine of Mansfield Park, Jane Austen views the social mores of her day and contemplates human nature itself. A shy and sweet-tempered girl adopted by wealthy relations, Fann… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757813
- Language: English
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Common Sense: And Other Writings
$15.00 Add to cartIncludes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of Reason (part one); Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, published anonymously and just discovered to be Paine’s… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Paine, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0375760113
- Language: English
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The Charterhouse of Parma
$22.00 Add to cartRichard Howard’s exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal’s stirring tale has brought about the rediscovery of this classic by modern readers. Stendhal narrates a young aristocrat’s adventures i… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Stendhal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783180
- Language: English
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My First Summer in the Sierra
$14.00 Read moreJohn Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become a famed conservationist when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, not long after the Civil War. He was so captivated by w… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 353
- Publish Date: November 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968654
- Language: English
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The Renaissance: A Short History
$22.00 Add to cartThe Renaissance holds an undying place in our imagination, its great heroes still our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. This period of profound evolution in European thought is… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 0812966198
- 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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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
$19.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work of early feminism that extends … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757228
- Language: English
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The Magnificent Ambersons
$23.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Tarkington, Booth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 1998
- ISBN10: 0375752501
- Language: English
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
$20.00 Add to cartThe Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature’ s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book’s eponymous character… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 06 2009
- ISBN10: 081298045X
- Language: English
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Clotel: Or, the President’s Daughter
$19.00 Add to cartThe first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Brown, William Wells
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0679783237
- Language: English
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The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography
$20.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
‘I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams, ‘ said Gore Vidal. ‘He was remarkably prescient about t- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
- Author: Adams, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 517
- Publish Date: May 11 1999
- ISBN10: 067964010X
- Language: English
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Riders of the Purple Sage
$20.00 Add to cartTold by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, “combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture,” Riders of the Purpl… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Grey, Zane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0812966120
- Language: English
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The Betrothed
$20.00 Add to cartItaly’s greatest novel and a masterpiece of world literature, The Betrothed chronicles the unforgettable romance of Renzo and Lucia, who endure tyranny, war, famine, and plague to be together.
Publish- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Manzoni, Alessandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0812978811
- Language: English
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The Balkans: A Short History
$17.00 Add to cartThroughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodox… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Mazower, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 081296621X
- Language: English
