Modern Library
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A Raisin in the Sun
$20.00 Add to cart“Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people’s lives been seen on the stage,” observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 22 1995
- ISBN10: 679601724
- Language: English
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang & to Build a Fire
$10.00 Add to cartThe Call of the Wild–Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world,” E. L. Doctorow wrote in Th- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 1998
- ISBN10: 037575251X
- Language: English
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In Search of Lost Time
$100.00 Add to cartFor this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definiti… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 6
- Publish Date: June 03 2003
- ISBN10: 0812969642
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories
$27.00 Add to cartThe 50th-anniversary edition of the classic, savagely comic account of a trip to Las Vegas that came to represent what happened to America in the 1960s–and a founding document of “gonzo journalism”–… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 1998
- ISBN10: 0679602984
- Language: English
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The Monk
$13.00 Read moreWhen Matthew Lewis’s The Monk was published in 1796, readers were shocked by this gripping and horrific novel. Lewis’s story, which drove the House of Commons–of which he was a member–to deem him li… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Lewis, Matthew Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759166
- Language: English
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The Hellenistic Age: A Short History
$20.00 Add to cartThe Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity’s great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Green’s remarkably far-ranging stu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Green, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0812967402
- Language: English
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Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
$10.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Wendy Steiner – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley, while staying in the Swiss Alps with her lover Pe- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 26 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753419
- Language: English
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Father Brown: The Essential Tales
$17.00 Add to cartG. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man’s frailties-gained during his years l… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0812972228
- Language: English
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The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
$27.00 Add to cart- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600078
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$15.00 Read moreThe unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women–with an introduction by Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried and National… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593230361
- Language: English
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The Spanish Civil War
$26.00 Add to cart“Mr. Thomas has understood the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject.”–Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Thomas, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0375755152
- Language: English
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Inferno
$17.00 Read moreTranslated by Anthony Esolen
A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante’s masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that repro
Illustrations by Gustave Dor- Series: Divine Comedy #1
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812970063
- Language: English
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The Aeneid
$18.00 Add to cartA fresh and faithful translation of Vergil’s Aeneid restores the epic’s spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.
“Vivid and haunting .- Author: Vergil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1984854127
- Language: English
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Passing
$16.00 Read moreNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING TESSA THOMPSON AND RUTH NEGGA
Two women in 1920s New York discover how fluid and dangerous our perceptions of race can be in this electrifying classic of the Harlem- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Larsen, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0375758135
- Language: English
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Leaves of Grass: The Death-Bed Edition
$16.00 Read more- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783423
- Language: English
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The Importance of Being Earnest: And Other Plays
$12.00 Read moreOscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, comic masterpieces of all time, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, in 1895. Considered one of the greatest THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is a farce… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0812967143
- Language: English
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The Gardener’s Bed-Book: Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things
$18.00 Read moreFirst published in 1929, The Gardener’s Bed-Book is a much beloved gardening classic by the renowned editor of House & Garden magazine in the 1920s and ’30s. Each of its 365 perfectly sized little ess… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Gardening
- Author: Wright, Richardson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 22 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968735
- Language: English
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Dusk and Other Stories
$17.00 Read moreFirst published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital–each narrative a masterpiece of … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Salter, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0812981138
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation – The electrifying collected works of “one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets in early twentieth-century Japan” (The New Yorker). … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Sagawa, Chika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0593230019
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby
$17.00 Add to cartThe classic novel that continues to haunt our understanding of ambition, love, entitlement, and the American Dream–with an exclusive discussion guide and an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning cri… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0593133552
- Language: English
