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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics)

By: N/A

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Modern Library: June 2004

Seller ID: 454615

ISBN: 0812972147

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Full 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 his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever.

This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Bu...
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Democracy: An American Novel

By: Adams, Henry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: April 2013

Seller ID: 233606

ISBN: 037576058X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1880, the anonymously penned Democracy prompted widespread speculation and guessing games as to its author's identity. It is the story of Mrs. Lightfoot Lee, a society widow, and Silas Ratcliffe, the most influential member of the Senate, who, throughout the novel, pursues Mrs. Lee while at the same time battling her for power. Set in Washington in the 1870s, Democracy presents a scathing and incisive look at the intricate inner workings of politics and corruption that remains relevant today.

This Modern Library Paperback Classi...
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Little Women

By: Alcott, Louisa May

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Dec-13

Seller ID: 455739

ISBN: 375756728

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Best Little Boy in the World (Modern Library)

By: Andrew Tobias

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Modern Library: Aug-98

Seller ID: 416359

ISBN: 067960314X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Originally published under the pseudonym John Reid, recounts growing up homosexual in a heterosexual world.
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Basic Work of Aristotle

By: Aristotle

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 446996

ISBN: 375757996

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Pride and Prejudice

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Aug-13

Seller ID: 432742

ISBN: 679783261

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Lost Illusions

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $6.00

Publisher: January 2012

Seller ID: 177608

ISBN: 0375757902

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Balzac was] the master unequalled in the art of painting humanity as it exists in modern society," wrote George Sand. "He searched and dared everything."

Written between 1837 and 1843, Lost Illusions reveals, perhaps better than any other of Balzac's ninety-two novels, the nature and scope of his genius. The story of Lucien Chardon, a young poet from Angoul me who tries desperately to make a name for himself in Paris, is a brilliantly realistic and boldly satirical portrait of provincial manners and aristocratic life. Handsome and ambitious but na ve, Lucien is patronized by the b...
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Wonderful Wizard of Oz

By: Baum, L. Frank

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Apr-14

Seller ID: 419322

ISBN: 081297011X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

L. Frank Baum's timeless classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was the ﬁrst uniquely American fairy tale. A combination of enchanting fantasy and piercing social commentary, this remarkable story has entertained and beguiled readers of all ages since it was ﬁrst published in 1900. Ray Bradbury writes in his Introduction, "Both Baum and Shakespeare] lived inside their heads with a mind gone wild with wanting, wishing, hoping, shaping, dreaming," and it is this same hunger that makes all of us continue to seek out the story of Oz--and be nourished by it.
This Modern Library...
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Jane Eyre

By: Bronte, Charlotte

Price: $6.00

Publisher: July 2014

Seller ID: 469486

ISBN: 0679783326

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Introduction by Diane Johnson
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Rigby, George Saintsbury, and Anthony Trollope

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre erupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the world's most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work "of great genius." Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Bro...
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American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings

By: Buell, Lawrence

Price: $7.00

Publisher: May-13

Seller ID: 430282

ISBN: 081297509X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Transcendentalism 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-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world, class distinctions, the role of women, and the existence of slavery.
Edited by the eminent scholar Lawrence Buell, this comprehensive anthology contains the essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and their fellow visionaries. There are also r...
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American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings

By: Buell, Lawrence

Price: $7.00

Publisher: May-13

Seller ID: 462370

ISBN: 081297509X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Tarzan of the Apes: A Tarzan Novel (Modern Library Classics)

By: Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Price: $5.50

Seller ID: 373286

ISBN: 0812967062

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, Tarzan of the Apes remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, is "the best known character in the whole of fiction." As John Taliaferro asserts in his Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic, "There is no question that Tarzan of the Apes] is one of the most entertaining and exemplary books of the last century. . . . It] is not merely a story from a bygone era;...
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Rise of David Levinsky

By: Cahan, Abraham

Price: $4.00

Publisher: October 2016

Seller ID: 217154

ISBN: 0375757988

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Rise of David Levinsky, written by the legendary founder and editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, is an early Jewish-American classic. According to the scholar Sam B. Girgus, "The novel is more than an important literary work and cultural document. It forms part of the traditional ritual of renewal of the American Way."

First published in 1917, Abraham Cahan's realistic novel tells the story of a young talmudic scholar who emigrates from a small town in Russia to the melting pot of turn-of-the-century New York City. As the Jewish "greenhorn" rises from the depths of povert...
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A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library)

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Modern Library: November 1996

Seller ID: 104994

ISBN: 0679602372

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A holiday classic from "one of the greatest writers and most fascinating society figures in American history" (Vanity Fair)

First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection from Truman Capote (In Cold Blood; Breakfast at Tiffany's) about his rural Alabama boyhood is a perfect gift for Capote's fans young and old.

Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin, Miss Sook Falk: "It's fruitcake weather " Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship and the memories the t...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

By: Carroll, Lewis

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Feb-15

Seller ID: 441089

ISBN: 375761381

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Origin of Species (Modern Library Classics)

By: Charles Darwin

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Modern Library: Aug-98

Seller ID: 431567

ISBN: 375751467

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Longer Stories from the Last Decade (Modern Library)

By: Chekhov, Anton

Price: $12.50

Seller ID: 416361

ISBN: 679606637

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Awakening and Selected Stories (Modern Library Classics)

By: Chopin, Kate

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 383724

ISBN: 0679783334

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Introduction by Kaye Gibbons
Edited and with notes by Nina Baym
Commentary by Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and from The Picayune's Creole Cook Book

The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solit...
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The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library Classics)

By: Clark, Walter Van Tilburg

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Modern Library: March 2001

Seller ID: 88554

ISBN: 0375757023

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature. As Wallace Stegner writes, Clark's] theme was civilization, and he recorded, indelibly, its first steps in a new c...
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The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library Classics)

By: Clark, Walter Van Tilburg

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Modern Library: April 2004

Seller ID: 98708

ISBN: 0812972589

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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