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Reducere. Self-published in 1899 and sold door-to-door by the author, this classic African-American novel--a gripping exploration of oppression, miscegenatio...

Reducere. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time When first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Blac...

Reducere. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Bo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anton Pavlovich ChekhovBecause Chekhov s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, fr...

Reducere. "A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre."--Teju Cole, The New Yorker German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative autho...

Reducere. Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of th...

The Gospel is more than information about the death and resurrection of our Lord. It is an invitation to enter, by way of personal faith, into a re...

Contributor(s): Author: George S. SchuylerModern Library Harlem Renaissance What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned...

Reducere. A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw th...

Reducere. A holiday classic from ``one of the greatest writers and most fascinating society figures in American history`` (Vanity Fair) First published in 19...

Translated by Natasha Randall Foreword by Bruce Sterling Written in 1921, We is set in the One State, where all live for the collective good and in...

Chosen by BusinessWeek as One of the Top Ten Business Books of the YearWith apologies to Hegel, Marx, and Lenin, the basic unit of modern society i...

Reducere. "Balzac was] the master unequalled in the art of painting humanity as it exists in modern society, " wrote George Sand. "He searched and dared ever...

Reducere. Timeless meditations on the subjects of wine, parties, birthdays, love, and friendship, Horace's Odes, in the words of classicist Donald Carne-Ross...

One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and di...

Reducere. Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest bi...

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Reducere. In A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain's unofficial sequel to The Innocents Abroad, the author records his hilarious and diverse observations and insights w...

Reducere. In Basic Teachings of the Buddha, Glenn Wallis selects sixteen essential dialogues drawn from more than five thousand Pali-dialect suttas of the Bu...

Reducere. Introduction by JEREMY TREGLOWN"In his daily walks through London, " notes Jeremy Treglown in his Introduction to this collection, "Pritchett watch...

Reducere. If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species's ...

This unique collection of Twain's essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author's vast imagination. Feat...

Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea, Paperback

A contemporary guide to 35 popular heritage herbs and flowers, inspired by the original herbals in the British Library's collection with fruitful s...

Reducere. Destined to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's Night as one of the great classics of the Holocaust, I Will Bear Wit...

The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century ``God forbid, I've fallen in love with Layli `` So begins the farce of our narrator's life,...

Reducere. In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing...

The Star Rover is the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life--and long stretches in a strait...

Reducere. "If 2001 has stirred your emotions, your subconscious, your mythological yearnings, then it has succeeded."--Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick's extr...

Reducere. The beloved characters--mortal and immortal--of Topper return in this uproarious romp through the south of France. One of Thorne Smith's best-loved...

Reducere. From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first tim...

Reducere. A stirring, intimate reflection on the nature of race and American nationhood that has inspired generations of writers and thinkers, first publishe...

Reducere. This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as ``A Valedict...

Reducere. The series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in ...

A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil's Aeneid restores the epic's spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone ...

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Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influentia...

Reducere. For more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. The Only ...

Reducere. Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly...

Reducere. The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume.The final selection of the thirt...

Reducere. Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans...

Reducere. When Matthew Lewis's The Monk was published in 1796, readers were shocked by this gripping and horrific novel. Lewis's story, which drove the House...

Reducere. Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of ...

Description"Between the earliest and the latest of the works included here, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous and adventurous philoso...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. These two classic novels featuring private eye Philip Marlowe made Raymond Chandler's name synonymous with America's hard-boiled school of crime fi...

Reducere. DescriptionPaul Laurence Dunbar (1872 1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known authors in America, and the first African A...

Reducere. DescriptionPublished when Theodore Roosevelt was only twenty-three years old, The Naval War of 1812 was immediately hailed as a literary and schola...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has conti...

Reducere. From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The ...

The radiant, posthumous second novel by the visionary author of Invisible Man, featuring an introduction and a new postscript by Ralph Ellison's li...

Reducere. Written in elegant and precise prose, Don Vicente contains two novels in F. Sionil José's classic Rosales Saga. The saga, begun in José's novel Dus...

Reducere. When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiator in late 1995, he took a gamble that would eventually redefine...

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life o...

More than any other writer of the twentieth century, Henri Poincar brought the elegant, but often complicated, ideas about science and mathematics ...

Reducere. A sample of the menu: Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way - Roger Angell on the art of the martini - Don DeLillo on Jell-O - Malcolm Gladwell...

This book reviews and analyses the modern history of Kuwait by telling the story of Abd al-Aziz Sa'ud al-Babtain (b. 1936), a businessman, philanth...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true acco...

Reducere. Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle's works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for ne...

Reducere. The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years o...

Reducere. Including contributions by W. H. Auden - Elizabeth Bishop - John Cheever - Janet Flanner - John Hersey - Langston Hughes - Shirley Jackson - A. J. ...

Reducere. D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Paris, the relentless drive through Germany toward Allied victory--Omar Bradley, the ``GI General...

Reducere. A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and the ultimate submission o...

Reducere. In 1893, Fridjtof Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pres...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edi...

Reducere. From its very first land run days in 1889, Oklahoma City has been a mecca for daring men and women intent on transforming the flat, grassy prairie ...

Reducere. "We read The Three Musketeers to experience a sense of romance and for the sheer excitement of the story, " reflected Clifton Fadiman. "In these vi...

Reducere. Racial bias, both implicit and explicit, is easy to see in American news media. Race and the Media in Modern America explores differences in report...

Reducere. From the Civil Rights Movement to the present day, Americans have protested against police brutality. Protesting Police Violence in Modern America ...

Studies the work of the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974) to explore how modern British poetry has engaged with the early medieva...