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The Balkans: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)Author: Mark MazowerPublisher: Modern LibraryPublication Date: Aug 06, 2002Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in...

From the renowned author of Invisible Man, a classic, ?elegant? (The New York Times) collection of essays that captures the breadth and complexity of his insights into racial identity, jazz and...

This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A...

Author: James MadisonPublisher: Modern LibraryPublication Date: November 08, 2005Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0812975170ISBN-13: 9780812975178

The influential masterpiece of one of the twentieth century?s most brilliant?and neglected?science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called ?the best writer of science fiction that...

This clear and comprehensive anthology, culled from the vast corpus of Christian mystical literature by the renowned theologian and historian Bernard McGinn, presents nearly one hundred selections,...

Author: Niccol?? MachiavelliPublisher: Modern LibraryPublication Date: Mar 01, 2007Number of Pages: 544 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0812974239ISBN-13: 9780812974232

An ?electrifying [and] compulsively readable? new translation of the Gospels, destined to become a definitive edition of these canonical texts, from ?one of our greatest living translators? (The...

A new translation of the French naturalism classic, the second in the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart saga, follows the incestuous affair of Rene Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, in the wake of her...

Recounts the efforts of Scott, a British explorer, and Amundsen, a Norwegian, to be the first to reach the South PoleAuthor: Roland HuntfordPublisher: Modern LibraryPublication Date: September 07,...

The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer?ecently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars?heds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration...

Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold Featuring essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin ?When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he...

The Modern Library Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction (Modern Library Paperbacks)Author: Stephen KochPublisher: Modern LibraryPublication Date: April 01, 2003Number of Pages: 272...

A provocative and thoroughly feminist ?cult classic? (The New Yorker) about a smart and sensitive yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own terms?now returning to print for the...

The Southern Gates Of Arabia: A Journey In The Hadhramaut (Modern Library (Paperback))Author: Freya StarkPublisher: Modern LibraryPublication Date: Jul 24, 2001Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage:...

From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surprising and thought-provoking treatise on everything from prayer to poetry to puff pastry. In The...

The Valleys Of The Assassins: And Other Persian Travels (Modern Library (Paperback))Author: Freya StarkPublisher: Modern LibraryPublication Date: Jul 24, 2001Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage:...

Adam Smith?s masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern...

A rediscovered classic about how racism and sexism tests the spirit, ambition, and character of three children growing up in Hell?s Kitchen and Harlem, from the literary editor of The Crisis, the...