Modern Library
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In Search of Lost Time: Within a Budding Grove V. 2 (Revised)
$22.00 Read moreFirst published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhoo… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0375752196
- Language: English
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To End a War: The Conflict in Yugoslavia–America’s Inside Story–Negotiating with Milosevic
$20.00 Read moreWhen President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America’s chief negotiator in late 1995, he took a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Holbrooke, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753605
- Language: English
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The House of the Seven Gables
$11.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne’s defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cur… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756876
- Language: English
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Villette
$14.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Jane Eyre, a strikingly modern story of a young woman starting over–with an introduction by Weike Wang, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of Chemistry
“Villette Villette Have y- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 037575850X
- Language: English
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Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats
$19.00 Add to cart‘I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death, ‘ John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic geni… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Keats, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756698
- Language: English
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Ethan Frome & Summer
$14.00 Read moreA pair of masterly short novels, featuring an introduction by Elizabeth Strout, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Anything Is Possible and My Name Is Lucy Barton
Thought Edith Wharton is best know- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757287
- Language: English
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Persuasion
$7.00 Add to cartJane Austen’s last completed novel, a brilliantly insightful story of regret, second chances, and the courage to follow our hearts
Anne Elliot is twenty-seven and unmarried–by all accounts a spinster- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757295
- Language: English
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Guadalcanal Diary
$18.00 Read moreThis celebrated classic gives a soldier’s-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles–crucial to World War II, the war that continues to fascinate us all, and to military history in general. Unlike some of t… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library War
- Author: Tregaskis, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 30 2000
- ISBN10: 0679640231
- Language: English
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
$12.00 Read moreSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING THE CROWN‘S EMMA CORRIN AND UNBROKEN‘S JACK O’CONNELL
Introduction by Kathryn Harrison Inspired by the long-standing affair between D. H. Lawrence’s German- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375758003
- Language: English
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
$13.00 Add to cartEdited and with an Introduction by Matthew Pearl
Includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rog t,” and “The Purloined Letter”
Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented th… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 23 2006
- ISBN10: 0679643427
- Language: English
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
$30.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – An “urgently readable” (Newsweek) biography of the captivating tsar who changed Russian history–from the New York Times bestselling author of Nicholas and Alexandra, The Roman… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0679645608
- Language: English
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Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden
$17.00 Add to cartBack in print after fifty years
Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse’s immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the- Series: Modern Library Gardening
- Author: Arkell, Reginald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0812967380
- Language: English
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The Return of the Soldier
$15.00 Add to cartA soldier returns home transformed by World War I, sending shock waves through the lives of three women, in Rebecca West’s groundbreaking debut novel
Jenny has been waiting for the return of her cousi- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: West, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0812971221
- Language: English
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Stowaway to Mars
$19.00 Add to cartA space opera set on Mars by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant–and neglected–science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England… [more below]
- Author: Wyndham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0593450167
- Language: English
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Islam: A Short History
$18.00 Add to cartNo religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 081296618X
- Language: English
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A Passage to India
$22.00 Add to cartThe richest and most ambitious novel by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, this masterpiece counts the human cost of British-occupied India, a society afflicted by imperialism and r… [more below]
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0593241568
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$22.00 Add to cartRilke’s Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before hi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0679642323
- Language: English
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
$11.00 Read moreIntroduction by A. S. Byatt
Illustrations by John Tenniel
Includes commissioned endnotes
Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Ali- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0375761381
- Language: English
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Essential Feminist Reader
$20.00 Add to cartIncluding: Susan B. Anthony Simone de Beauvoir W.E.B. Du Bois H l ne Cixous Betty Friedan Charlotte Perkins Gilman Emma Goldman Guerrilla Girls Ding Ling – Audre Lorde John Stuart Mill Christine de Pi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Freedman, Estelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0812974603
- Language: English
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On the Natural History of Destruction
$21.00 Add to cartDuring World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died–a figure twice that of all America… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sebald, W. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0375756574
- Language: English
