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Leaves of Grass
Written by Walt Whitman
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1983
Price: $5.95
One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the wonderful gift... Read more >
Written by Walt Whitman
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1983
Price: $5.95
One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the wonderful gift... Read more >
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Oliver Twist
Written by Charles Dickens
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set against London's seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that... Read more >
Written by Charles Dickens
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set against London's seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that... Read more >
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Basic Writings of Existentialism
Edited by Gordon Marino
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $18.00
Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino
Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine meaning for ourselves. This anthology brings together into... Read more >
Edited by Gordon Marino
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $18.00
Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino
Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine meaning for ourselves. This anthology brings together into... Read more >
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The Adolescent
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $16.95
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $16.95
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to... Read more >
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1984
Price: $5.99
From the icy blast of reveille through the sweet release of sleep, Ivan Denisovich endures. A common carpenter, he is one of millions viciously imprisoned for countless years on baseless charges, sentenced to the waking nightmares of the Soviet work camps in Siberia. Even in the face of degrading hatred, where life is... Read more >
Written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1984
Price: $5.99
From the icy blast of reveille through the sweet release of sleep, Ivan Denisovich endures. A common carpenter, he is one of millions viciously imprisoned for countless years on baseless charges, sentenced to the waking nightmares of the Soviet work camps in Siberia. Even in the face of degrading hatred, where life is... Read more >
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A Garden of Earthly Delights
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Elaine Showalter
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2003
Price: $15.00
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard... Read more >
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Elaine Showalter
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2003
Price: $15.00
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard... Read more >
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Ten Plays by Euripides
Written by Euripides
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1990
Price: $7.95
The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on... Read more >
Written by Euripides
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1990
Price: $7.95
The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on... Read more >
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Written by D.H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1983
Price: $5.99
Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence's last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her growing love for the robust gamekeeper of her husband's estate. The most... Read more >
Written by D.H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1983
Price: $5.99
Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence's last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her growing love for the robust gamekeeper of her husband's estate. The most... Read more >
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Four Great American Classics
Written by Herman Melville, Mark Twain and Stephen Crane
Format: Paperback, 896 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $7.99
These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day.
The Scarlet Letter vividly records America’s moral and historical... Read more >
Written by Herman Melville, Mark Twain and Stephen Crane
Format: Paperback, 896 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $7.99
These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day.
The Scarlet Letter vividly records America’s moral and historical... Read more >
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The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton
Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon
Format: Hardcover, 1408 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $55.00
John Milton is, next to William Shakespeare, the most influential English poet, a writer whose work spans an incredible breadth of forms and subject matter. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton celebrates this author’s genius in a thoughtfully assembled book that provides new modern-spelling versions of Milton’s texts... Read more >
Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon
Format: Hardcover, 1408 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $55.00
John Milton is, next to William Shakespeare, the most influential English poet, a writer whose work spans an incredible breadth of forms and subject matter. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton celebrates this author’s genius in a thoughtfully assembled book that provides new modern-spelling versions of Milton’s texts... Read more >
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