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The Master of Ballantrae - A Winter's Tale by Robert Louis Stevenson; Andrea Barrett (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Complete and unabridged paperback edition.First published in 1888.
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy; J. I. M. Stewart (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Michael Henchard knew he deserved the pain he felt. Henchard is a handsome farm laborer. When he gets drunk at a country fair, he sells his wife and child to a sailor. The next day, ashamed by what he has done, he lets people believe that his wife has died. Thus begins a chain of events which leads Henc ...Show more
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library
Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley CorngoldFeaturing essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly fun ...Show more
The Mysterious Island by Jules VERNE
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The Mysterious Island is another exquisite novel written by the master of adventure writing, Jules Verne. The novel has been seen as the sequel to two other famous novels written by the same author: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaway. The story revolves around five Amer ...Show more
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark; Wallace Stegner (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Set 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 and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivi ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
The Song of Roland by W. S. Merwin (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
A contemporary prose rendering of the great medieval French epic, The Song of Roland is as canonical and significant as the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf. It extols the chivalric ideals in the France of Charlemagne through the exploits of Charlemagne's nephew, the warrior Roland, who fights bravely to his death i ...Show more
The Sonnets and Other Poems by William Shakespeare; Jonathan Bate (Editor); Eric Rasmussen (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language's most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions-desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration and disgust. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in ...Show more
The Toilers of the Sea by HUGO VICTOR
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
A new translation by Scot James Hogarth for the first unabridged English edition of the novel, which tells the story of a reculsive fisherman from the Channel Islands who must free a ship that has run aground in order to win the hand of the woman he loves, a shipowner's daughter
The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn by Merrill Gerber
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Category: Gardening | Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature Ser.
With The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn, Merrill Joan Gerber demonstrates yet again her talent for pure and natural prose that penetrates the depths of human emotion. Her new novel illuminates the lives of three generations of women belonging to a Jewish American family in New York. Arriving from Poland a ...Show more
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - A Book for All and None by Friedrich Nietzsche; Walter Kaufmann (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Modern Library Ser.
Composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is the most famous and influential work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The work is a philosophical novel in which the character of Zarathustra, a religious prophet-like figure, delivers a series of lessons and sermons in a ...Show more
Travels in Alaska by John Muir
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Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics
In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. Half-poet and half-geologist, he recorded his experiences and reflections in "Tra ...Show more