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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
$22.00 Read moreCompiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Ellison, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968263
- Language: English
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Jane Eyre
$9.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Diane Johnson
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Grea
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Rigby, George Saintsbury, and Anthony Trollope- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783326
- Language: English
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The Korean War: A History
$22.00 Add to cartA BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED
For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Cumings, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 12 2011
- ISBN10: 081297896X
- Language: English
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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 2
$21.00 Read morePlutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by fa… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756779
- Language: English
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The Age of Innocence
$11.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the c- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 02 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753206
- Language: English
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Hunting Trips of a Ranchman & the Wilderness Hunter
$20.00 Add to cartWritten during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Bad Lands, these two wilderness tales by Theodore Roosevelt endure today as part of the classic folklore of the West. The narratives provide vivid p… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: May 12 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751521
- Language: English
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Trouble with Lichen
$19.00 Add to cartA “sharp, amusing story” (The Guardian) about the fountain of youth and its implications for women’s rights, by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant–and neglected–science fiction and horror… [more below]
- Author: Wyndham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 593450140
- Language: English
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The Midwich Cuckoos
$18.00 Add to cartA genre-defining tale of first contact 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… [more below]
- Author: Wyndham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593450124
- Language: English
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The Greek Histories: The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch
$23.00 Read moreFrom the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chron… [more below]
- Author: Lefkowitz, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1984854321
- Language: English
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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
$18.00 Add to cartGathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagin… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Yeats, William Butler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968557
- Language: English
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The Kraken Wakes
$17.00 Add to cartAn “ingenious, horrifying” (The Guardian) first contact story by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant–and neglected–science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best wr… [more below]
- Author: Wyndham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593450108
- Language: English
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The Fire Next Time
$22.00 Add to cartAt once a powerful evocation of his childhood in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, The Fire Next Time, which galvanized the nation in the early days of the C… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0679601511
- Language: English
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Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
$20.00 Add to cart“I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.” So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle, bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would argua… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0812968492
- Language: English
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The City of God
$28.00 Read moreOne of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern Western society and the origin of most Western … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Augustine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0679600876
- Language: English
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The Princess of 72nd Street
$27.00 Read moreA provocative and thoroughly feminist “cult classic” (The New Yorker) about a smart and sensitive yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own terms–now returning to print for the firs… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Kraf, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 593731808
- Language: English
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Basic Writings of Kant
$20.00 Read moreIntroduction by Allen W. Wood
The writings of Immanuel Kant became the cornerstone of all subsequent philosophical inquiry. They articulate the r
With translations by F. Max M ller and Thomas K. Abbott- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757333
- Language: English
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
$27.00 Add to cartA “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, The Roman… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0679645616
- Language: English
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The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings
$22.00 Add to cartTranscendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteen… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Buell, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 10 2006
- ISBN10: 081297509X
- Language: English
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Bulfinch’s Mythology: Includes the Age of Fable, the Age of Chivalry & Legends of Charlemagne
$21.00 Read moreFor almost a century and a half, Bulfinch’s Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myt… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Bulfinch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: August 11 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751475
- Language: English
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The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
$42.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Maya Angelou’s classic memoirs have had an enduring impact on American literature and culture. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on P… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: September 21 2004
- ISBN10: 0679643257
- Language: English
