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The Dark Side
The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
Written by Jane Mayer
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.95
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National BestsellerWith a New AfterwordNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-DealerThe Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United... Read more >
The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
Written by Jane Mayer
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.95
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National BestsellerWith a New AfterwordNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-DealerThe Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United... Read more >
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The Three Musketeers
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Translated by Lowell Bair
Format: Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1984
Price: $6.95
Perhaps the greatest “cloak and sword” story ever written, The Three Musketeers, first published ion 1844, is a tale for all time. Pitting the heroic young d’Artagnan and his noble compatriots, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis against the master of intrigue, Cardinal Richelieu, and the quintessential wicked woman, Lady de Winter, Alexandre... Read more >
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Translated by Lowell Bair
Format: Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1984
Price: $6.95
Perhaps the greatest “cloak and sword” story ever written, The Three Musketeers, first published ion 1844, is a tale for all time. Pitting the heroic young d’Artagnan and his noble compatriots, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis against the master of intrigue, Cardinal Richelieu, and the quintessential wicked woman, Lady de Winter, Alexandre... Read more >
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The Belly of Paris
Written by Emile Zola
Translated by Mark Kurlansky
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $16.00
Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and... Read more >
Written by Emile Zola
Translated by Mark Kurlansky
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $16.00
Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and... 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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The Deerslayer
Written by James Fenimore Cooper
Format: Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1991
Price: $5.95
The deadly crack of a long rifle and the piercing cries of Indians on the warpath shatter the serenity of beautiful Lake Glimmerglass. Danger has invaded the vast forests of upper New York State as Deerslayer and his loyal Mohican friend Chingachgook attempt the daring rescue of an Indian maiden imprisoned... Read more >
Written by James Fenimore Cooper
Format: Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1991
Price: $5.95
The deadly crack of a long rifle and the piercing cries of Indians on the warpath shatter the serenity of beautiful Lake Glimmerglass. Danger has invaded the vast forests of upper New York State as Deerslayer and his loyal Mohican friend Chingachgook attempt the daring rescue of an Indian maiden imprisoned... Read more >
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The Pickwick Papers
Written by Charles Dickens
Format: Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1983
Price: $6.99
The high-spirited work of a young Dickens, The Pickwick Papers is the remarkable first novel that made its author famous and that has remained one of the best-known books in the world. In it the inimitable Samuel Pickwick, his well-fed body and unsinkable good spirits clad in tights and gaiters, sallies... Read more >
Written by Charles Dickens
Format: Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1983
Price: $6.99
The high-spirited work of a young Dickens, The Pickwick Papers is the remarkable first novel that made its author famous and that has remained one of the best-known books in the world. In it the inimitable Samuel Pickwick, his well-fed body and unsinkable good spirits clad in tights and gaiters, sallies... Read more >
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The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
Written by Mark Twain
Format: Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1984
Price: $6.95
For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years.
Every one... Read more >
Written by Mark Twain
Format: Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1984
Price: $6.95
For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years.
Every one... Read more >
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The Name of the Rose
Written by Umberto Eco
Translated by William Weaver
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $27.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
A spectacular best seller and now a classic, The Name of the Rose catapulted Umberto Eco, an Italian professor of semiotics turned novelist, to international prominence. An erudite murder mystery set in a fourteenth-century monastery, it is not only a gripping story but also a brilliant exploration of... Read more >
Written by Umberto Eco
Translated by William Weaver
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $27.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
A spectacular best seller and now a classic, The Name of the Rose catapulted Umberto Eco, an Italian professor of semiotics turned novelist, to international prominence. An erudite murder mystery set in a fourteenth-century monastery, it is not only a gripping story but also a brilliant exploration of... Read more >
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The Winter's Tale
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00
One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter’s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive world of nature, and the magical power of art.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean... Read more >
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $8.00
One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter’s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive world of nature, and the magical power of art.
Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean... Read more >
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Paradiso
Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander
Format: Trade Paperback, 1024 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $19.95
With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar... Read more >
Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander
Format: Trade Paperback, 1024 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $19.95
With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar... Read more >
