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Peter Pan
Written by J.M. Barrie
Illustrated by F.D. Bedford
Introduction by Anne McCaffrey
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $8.95
Peter, Wendy, Captain Hook, the lost boys, and Tinker Bell have filled the hearts of children ever since Barrie's play first opened in London in 1904 and became an immediate sensation. Now this funny, haunting modern myth is presented with Bedford's wonderful illustrations, which first appeared in the author's own day... Read more >
Written by J.M. Barrie
Illustrated by F.D. Bedford
Introduction by Anne McCaffrey
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $8.95
Peter, Wendy, Captain Hook, the lost boys, and Tinker Bell have filled the hearts of children ever since Barrie's play first opened in London in 1904 and became an immediate sensation. Now this funny, haunting modern myth is presented with Bedford's wonderful illustrations, which first appeared in the author's own day... Read more >
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1992
Price: $4.95
It is 1792 and France is in the grip of a seething, bloody revolution. Mobs roam the Paris streets hunting down royalists, barricades block any chance of escape, and every day hundreds die under the blade of Madame la Guillotine. But in the hearts of the condemned nobility there remains one... Read more >
Written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1992
Price: $4.95
It is 1792 and France is in the grip of a seething, bloody revolution. Mobs roam the Paris streets hunting down royalists, barricades block any chance of escape, and every day hundreds die under the blade of Madame la Guillotine. But in the hearts of the condemned nobility there remains one... Read more >
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Written by Jorge Amado
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $16.00
Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonça discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot...
No one imagines that a bedraggled... Read more >
Written by Jorge Amado
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $16.00
Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonça discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot...
No one imagines that a bedraggled... Read more >
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Call of The Wild, White Fang
Written by Jack London
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1991
Price: $4.99
The Call Of The Wild is the story of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrust into the merciless life of the Arctic north to endure hardship, bitter cold, and the savage lawlessness of man and beast. White Fang is the adventure of an animal -- part dog, part wolf --turned vicious by cruel abuse... Read more >
Written by Jack London
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1991
Price: $4.99
The Call Of The Wild is the story of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrust into the merciless life of the Arctic north to endure hardship, bitter cold, and the savage lawlessness of man and beast. White Fang is the adventure of an animal -- part dog, part wolf --turned vicious by cruel abuse... Read more >
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Collected Poems
Written by W. H. Auden
Edited by Edward Mendelson
Format: Hardcover, 976 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $40.00
To commemorate the centennial of W. H. Auden’s birth, the Modern Library offers this elegant edition of the collected poems of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.
This volume includes all the poems that Auden wished to preserve, in a text that includes his final revisions, with corrections... Read more >
Written by W. H. Auden
Edited by Edward Mendelson
Format: Hardcover, 976 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $40.00
To commemorate the centennial of W. H. Auden’s birth, the Modern Library offers this elegant edition of the collected poems of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.
This volume includes all the poems that Auden wished to preserve, in a text that includes his final revisions, with corrections... Read more >
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Fatelessness
Written by Imre Kertesz
Translated by Tim Wilkinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $15.00
At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who... Read more >
Written by Imre Kertesz
Translated by Tim Wilkinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $15.00
At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who... Read more >
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Introduction by Matthew Pearl
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 23, 2006
Price: $9.95
Edited and with an Introduction by Matthew Pearl
Includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,” and “The Purloined Letter”
Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin... Read more >
Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Introduction by Matthew Pearl
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 23, 2006
Price: $9.95
Edited and with an Introduction by Matthew Pearl
Includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,” and “The Purloined Letter”
Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin... Read more >
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Women in Love
Written by D.H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1996
Price: $5.95
Perhaps no other of the world’s great writers lived and wrote with the passionate intensity of D. H. Lawrence. And perhaps no other of his books so explores the mysteries between men and women–both sensual and intellectual–as Women in Love. Written in the years before and during World War I in... Read more >
Written by D.H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1996
Price: $5.95
Perhaps no other of the world’s great writers lived and wrote with the passionate intensity of D. H. Lawrence. And perhaps no other of his books so explores the mysteries between men and women–both sensual and intellectual–as Women in Love. Written in the years before and during World War I in... Read more >
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Antony and Cleopatra
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $5.95
Written at the pinnacle of Shakespeare’s career and featuring his most soaring poetic idiom, Antony and Cleopatra is both an immortal love story and a political drama played out on a global scale.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $5.95
Written at the pinnacle of Shakespeare’s career and featuring his most soaring poetic idiom, Antony and Cleopatra is both an immortal love story and a political drama played out on a global scale.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern... Read more >
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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Written by Giorgio Vasari
Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere
Introduction by Philip Jacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $14.95
A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits with a decidedly modern... Read more >
Written by Giorgio Vasari
Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere
Introduction by Philip Jacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $14.95
A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits with a decidedly modern... Read more >
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