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Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days
Written by Jules Verne
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553213560
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Around the World in Eighty Days

Written by Jules Verne


Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $4.99

Jules Verne Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today Around the World in Eighty Days remains Jules Verne’s most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and... Read more >
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Written by Thomas Hardy, Introduction by Robert B. Heilman
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553211689
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Written by Thomas Hardy
Introduction by Robert B. Heilman


Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $4.95

Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy’s immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty while... Read more >
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The Essential Writings of Machiavelli
The Essential Writings of Machiavelli
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli, Translated by Peter Constantine, Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli
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ISBN: 9780812974232
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The Essential Writings of Machiavelli

Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli


Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $17.95

FINALIST--2008 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
In The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Peter Constantine has assembled a comprehensive collection that shows the true depth and breadth of a great Renaissance thinker. Refreshingly accessible, these superb new translations are faithful to Machiavelli’s original, beautifully crafted writings.

The volume features essays that appear in English for the... Read more >
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Death in Venice and Other Stories
Death in Venice and Other Stories
Written by Thomas Mann
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553213331
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Death in Venice and Other Stories

Written by Thomas Mann


Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1988
Price: $5.95

This superb translation of Death in Venice and six other stories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, deserving to be the definitive text for English-speaking readers. These seven stories represent Mann’s early writing career and a level of literary quality Mann himself despaired of ever again matching. In these... Read more >
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Kidnapped
Kidnapped
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553212600
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Kidnapped

Written by Robert Louis Stevenson


Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1982
Price: $3.95

Spirited, romantic, and full of danger, Kidnapped is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic of high adventure. Beloved by generations, it is the saga of David Balfour, a young heir whose greedy uncle connives to do him out of his inherited fortune and plots to have him seized and sold into slavery. But... Read more >
Basic Writings of Existentialism
Basic Writings of Existentialism
Edited by Gordon Marino
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375759895
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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 >
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Purgatorio
Purgatorio
Written by Dante, Translated by Allen Mandelbaum
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553213447
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Purgatorio

Written by Dante
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum


Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1983
Price: $6.95

This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion... Read more >
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The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans
Written by James Fenimore Cooper
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553213294
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The Last of the Mohicans

Written by James Fenimore Cooper


Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1982
Price: $4.95

The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become... Read more >
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Swiss Family Robinson
Written by Johann David Wyss
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553214031
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The Swiss Family Robinson

Written by Johann David Wyss


Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1992
Price: $4.95

“For many days we had been tempest-tossed…the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost.”

From these dire opening lines, a timeless story of adventure begins. One family will emerge alive from this terrible storm: the Robinsons—a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four sons, plus... Read more >
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A Wonderful Welcome to Oz
A Wonderful Welcome to Oz
Written by L. Frank Baum, Edited by Gregory Maguire, Illustrated by John R. Neill
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ISBN: 9780812974942
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A Wonderful Welcome to Oz
The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, & The Emerald City of Oz
Written by L. Frank Baum
Edited by Gregory Maguire
Illustrated by John R. Neill


Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $15.95

For more than a century, L. Frank Baum’s kingdom of Oz and its delightful denizens have enchanted readers of all ages. In this illustrated Modern Library edition, the bestselling novelist and children’s book writer Gregory Maguire takes readers on a guided tour of Oz, gathering and introducing us to three of... Read more >
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