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Middlemarch
$12.00 Add to cartOne of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of ferven… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: October 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783318
- Language: English
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Selected Short Stories
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner–also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Abs
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 18 1993
- ISBN10: 0679424784
- Language: English
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Them
$18.99 Add to cart“If the phrase ‘woman of letters’ existed, Joyce Carol Oates] would be, foremost in this country, entitled to it.”–John Updike, The New Yorker
As powerful and relevant today as it was on its initial… [more below]- Series: Wonderland Quartet (Paperback) #3
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0345484401
- Language: English
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At the Mountains of Madness
$16.00 Add to cartIntroduction by China Mi ville
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessent- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Lovecraft, H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: June 14 2005
- ISBN10: 0812974417
- Language: English
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The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely
$0.00 Read moreThese two classic novels featuring private eye Philip Marlowe made Raymond Chandler’s name synonymous with America’s hard-boiled school of crime fiction. The Big Sleep was an instant success when firs
- Series: Philip Marlowe Novel
- Author: Chandler, Raymond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 02, 1995
- ISBN10: 0679601406
- Language: English
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
$19.00 Add to cartFull of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Burton, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756752
- Language: English
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Absalom, Absalom!
$28.00 Read moreFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner–also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Selected Sho… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 09 1993
- ISBN10: 0679600728
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations
$35.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1776, The Wealth of Nations is generally regarded as the foundation of contemporary economic thought. Adam Smith, a Scottish professor of moral philosophy, expounded the then-revolu
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: January 25 1994
- ISBN10: 0679424733
- Language: English
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche PB
$23.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783393
- Language: English
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Ulysses
$32.00 Read moreSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text. I- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600116
- Language: English
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Swann’s Way
$20.00 Add to cartIn Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator’s childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: June 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751548
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
$18.00 Add to cartThis collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky’s key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in h… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756884
- Language: English
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War and Peace
$22.00 Add to cartIntroduction by A. N. Wilson – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Na- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1424
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760644
- Language: English
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Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale
$17.00 Read moreIntroduction by Elizabeth Hardwick
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiec
Illustrations by Rockwell Kent- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: October 10 2000
- ISBN10: 067978327X
- Language: English
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David Copperfield
$12.00 Add to cartHugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens’s own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heart… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783415
- Language: English
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Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
$25.00 Add to cartGonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels–Hell’s Angels, that is–in this short work of nonfiction.
“California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 07, 1999
- ISBN10: 067960331X
- Language: English
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Paradise
$18.00 Read more“If there is any justice in the world of books, Esolen’s] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come.”-Robert Royal, Crisis
In this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante asce- Series: Divine Comedy
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0812977262
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$6.95 Add to cartThis Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlight- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0345478231
- Language: English
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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
$26.00 Add to cart” The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”–Chicago Sun-Times
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise- Series: Modern Library War
- Author: Toland, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968581
- Language: English
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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 1: The Dryden Translation
$20.00 Add to cartPlutarch’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: 816
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756760
- Language: English
