Modern Library
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Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1963
$25.00 Add to cartA matchless account of the Battle of Gettysburg, drawn from Shelby Foote’s landmark history of the Civil War
Shelby Foote’s monumental three-part chronicle, The Civil War: A Narrative, was hailed by- Series: Modern Library of the World’s Best Books
- Author: Foote, Shelby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 28 1994
- ISBN10: 0679601120
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems of John Keats
$24.00 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 (Hardcover)
- Author: Keats, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 26 1994
- ISBN10: 0679601082
- Language: English
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The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom
$18.00 Read moreA riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: these are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.
- Author: Still, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1984855050
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
$24.00 Add to cartFriedrich Nietzsche’s most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is translated from the Germ… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 19 1995
- ISBN10: 679601759
- Language: English
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The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
$16.00 Add to cartAn indispensable collection of the groundbreaking poet’s most masterful and innovative work, celebrating a bold early voice of female liberation, independence, and queer sexuality–featuring a new int… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Millay, Edna St Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0375761233
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Edition
$25.00 Add to cartEdited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller
Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the
Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin
Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi- Series: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1312
- Publish Date: August 12 2003
- ISBN10: 0375758119
- Language: English
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The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud
$26.00 Add to cartThis classic edition of The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud includes complete texts of six works that have profoundly influenced our understanding of human behavior, presented here in the translation … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: July 10 1995
- ISBN10: 067960166X
- Language: English
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Ethics: The Essential Writings
$21.00 Add to cartIn Ethics: The Essential Writings, philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Marino, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0812977785
- Language: English
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Paradise Lost
$12.00 Add to cartEdited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon
John Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free wi- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Milton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 09 2008
- ISBN10: 0375757961
- Language: English
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The City of God
$18.00 Add to cartOne 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783199
- Language: English
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William Shakespeare Complete Works Second Edition
$85.00 Add to cartThe newly revised, wonderfully authoritative First Folio of William Shakespeare’s Complete Works, edited by acclaimed Shakespearean scholars and endorsed by the world-famous Royal Shakespeare Company … [more below]
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 2532
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0593230310
- Language: English
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche
$30.00 Add to cartThis captivating collection brings together five of Friedrich Nietzche’s most important philosophical works, exploring themes such as nihilism, metaphysics, and the nature of morality–featuring an in… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600000
- Language: English
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Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
$33.00 Add to cartWhen this longtime Modern Library favorite–filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense–was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New York… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Wagner, Phyllis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: October 18 1994
- ISBN10: 0679601287
- Language: English
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Quicksand
$18.00 Add to cartA classic novel of identity, sexuality, religion, and race by the author of Passing, hailed as “an original and hugely insightful writer” by The New York Times–with an introduction by Asali Solomon, … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Larsen, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0593730275
- Language: English
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Tales, Poems, and Other Writings
$29.00 Add to cartFrom short masterpieces like “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Billy Budd” to more obscure, even completely unknown works like the epic poem “Clarel,” Melville’s stories and poems rank among his greatest … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375757120
- Language: English
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
$27.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time – One of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers’s first no- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: McCullers, Carson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 18 1993
- ISBN10: 0679424741
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories of O. Henry
$26.00 Add to cartThe more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume.The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the rea… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Henry, O.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 22 1994
- ISBN10: 0679601228
- Language: English
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Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend
$24.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – “Altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as near… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Paperbacks
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: December 02 2008
- ISBN10: 081298062X
- Language: English
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The Ox-Bow Incident
$20.00 Add to cartSet in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757023
- Language: English
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Light in August
$26.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner–also available are Snopes,- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 02 2002
- ISBN10: 067964248X
- Language: English
