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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: AND Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll; A. S. Byatt (Introduction by); John Tenniel (Illustrator)
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There have enchanted readers for generations. The topsy-turvy drea ...Show more
Basic Writings of Existentialism by Gordon Daniel Marino
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The perfect choice for those who wonder what existentialism is all about. 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 ...Show more
Ethics - The Essential Writings by Gordon Marino (Editor)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
"In Ethics- The Essential Writings, philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years of thought from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter Sing ...Show more
Father Brown: The Essential Tales by G K Chesterton
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man's frailties-gained during his years listening to confessions-Father Brown succeeds in bringing even the most elusive criminals to justice. ...Show more
Frankenstein (modern library) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
A beautiful new edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein INCLUDES A CULTURAL HISTORY OF FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER BY JEANETTE WINTERSON Navigating the Arctic, the captain of a ship rescues a man wandering near death across the ice caps. How the man got there reveals itself a story of ...Show more
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and the Wilderness Hunter by Theodore Roosevelt; Stephen E. Ambrose (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Written during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Bad Lands, these two wilderness tales by Theodore Roosevelt endure today as part of the classic folklore of the West. The narratives provide vivid portraits of the land as well as the people and animals that inhabited it, underscoring Roosevelt's abidi ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Swann's Way is the first part of the saga In Search of Lost Time by a classic of theFrench literature Marcel Proust.Back in the day, this book confused the most sympathetic readers and critics,because at the first sight, it was an unsuccessful autobiographic novel that waschronologically complicated and ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #3: The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The "Guermantes Way," in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes's ch teau near Combray. It also represents the narrator's passage into the rarefied "social kaleidoscope" of the Guermantes's Paris salon, an important intellectua ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #4: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Sodom and Gomorrah opens a new phase of In Search of Lost Time. While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guer-mantes's orchid, the narrator secretly observes a sexual encounter between two men. "Flower and plant have no conscious will," Samuel Beckett wrote of Proust's representation of sexualit ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #6: Time Regained by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Time Regained, the final volume of In Search of Lost Time, begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature--his past life. This Mode ...Show more
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by W. B. Yeats; Paul Muldoon (Preface by)
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stori ...Show more
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson; Margot Livesey (Introduction by); Barry Menikoff (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
This is a biography of Joseph Paxton, horticulturist to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, architect of the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and a great unsung heroe of the Victorian Age.