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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. Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern Englan...

In this extraordinary book, the controversial and profoundly influential Hans K ng chronicles the Roman Catholic Church's role as a world power thr...

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. Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller This Modern Library edition combines two of the most impor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William ShakespeareEditor: Jonathan BateEditor: Eric RasmussenSet in a courtly world of masked revels and dances, this play...

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

Reducere. Generally believed to be the last play written solely by Shakespeare, The Tempest centers on a banished noble who uses sorcery to confront his foes...

Reducere. From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Robert K. Massie--also available are Nicholas and Alexandra and T...

Reducere. Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's 'bestseller, ' and Tess Durbeyfield remains hi...

Reducere. With his family s claim to the throne uncertain, Henry seeks to secure his position by turning the country s attention abroad. But when his outnumb...

In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of Inferno and thus introduced Dante's literary genius to the New Worl...

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. In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom...

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

Reducere. 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 ...

Reducere. When philosophy rescued him from an emotional crisis, Jules Evans became fascinated by how ideas invented over two thousand years ago can help us t...

Reducere. This harrowing tale of a young girl in the slums is a searing portrayal of turn-of-the-century New York, and Stephen Crane's most innovative work. ...

The story of an endearing, unlikely friendship set against the backdrop of a remote and beautiful Maine coastal town, The Country of the Pointed Fi...

Reducere. Includes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of Reason (part one); Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, pu...

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. 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...

Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts's groundbreaking third book (originally publi...

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

Contributor(s): Author: F. Scott FitzgeraldEdited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana Robinson Benediction - Head and Shoul...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas HardyOne of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, ...

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. Called a 'perfect novel' by Harold Bloom, Persuasion was written while Jane Austen was in failing health. She died soon after its completion, and i...

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...

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...

Reducere. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, ...

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

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...

Reducere. Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. FallonJohn Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen an...

Reducere. Introduction by George Bernard Shaw Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations--until h...

Reducere. Introduction by Laurie R. King The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, ...

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 ...

Reducere. A new translation, with an Introduction, by Gregory Hays Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121-180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome ...

Reducere. Translated by Anthony EsolenIllustrations by Gustave Dore A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a substantive Int...

Reducere. From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surprising and thought-provoking treatise on everythin...

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. 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...

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. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both -monumental- (The Boston Globe) and -utterl...

Reducere. Alan Watts introduced millions of Western readers to Zen and other Eastern philosophies, but he s also recognized as a brilliant commentator on Jud...

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. "The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea." --Henry VI Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmu...

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. An extraordinary new verse translation of Dante's masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen Of the great poets, Dante is ...

Reducere. G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselv...

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

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...

In The Lost World, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger--a character many critics consider one of the most finel...

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

Reducere. ``Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage, `` observed Ja...

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...

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

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...

Reducere. Introduction by A. S. ByattIllustrations by John TennielIncludes commissioned endnotes Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to ente...

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 Moonstone is a page-turner, " writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several...

Uncertain of their standing in court and fearing for their lives, Rosalind and Orlando are forced into exile in the Forest of Arden, only to become...

Reducere. Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul f...

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionAuthor(s): Jake RansohoffNumber of pages: 400Collection: ExtravagantesPublication date: 2022...

Reducere. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume. Frederick Douglas...

Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and A...

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 ...