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American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa; Layli Long Soldier (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Torchbearers Ser.
Bright and carefree, Zitkala-Sa grows up on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until Quaker missionaries arrive, offering a free education to all Sioux children. The catch- the children must leave their parents behind and travel to Indiana. Curious about the world beyond the r ...Show more
Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism by Bernard McGinn
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
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, from the writings of Origen of Alexandria in the third century to the work of twentieth-century mystics su ...Show more
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library
This is a new prose translation of Dante's epic. A newly edited version of the Italian text will be on facing pages. This edition includes fully comprehensive notes with the latest in contemporary scholarship as well as 16 short essays on special subjects at the end of the book.
Madame Bovary by Adam (TRN) Gustave; Thorpe Flaubert
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics
Emma, a passionate dreamer raised in the French countryside, is ready for her life to take off when she marries the decent, dull Dr. Charles Bovary. Marriage, however, fails to live up to her expectations, which are fueled by sentimental novels, and she turns disastrously to love affairs. The story of E ...Show more
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus's insights and advice - on everything from living in the world to ...Show more
Paradise by Dante Alighieri
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"If there is any justice in the world of books, [Esolen's] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come."-Robert Royal, "Crisis" In this, the concluding volume of "The Divine Comedy," Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved Beatrice, he ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library
The enjoyment of The Divine Comedy is a continuous process, observed T.S. Eliot. It is not necessary to understand the meaning first to enjoy the poetry...our enjoyment of the poetry makes us want to understand the meaning.
Seven Poor Men of Sydney by Christina Stead
Category: No Category | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
Originally published in 1934, Seven Poor Men of Sydney is Christina Stead's first novel, a brilliant portrayal of a group of men and women living in Sydney in the 1920s amid conditions of poverty and social turmoil. Set against the vividly drawn backgrounds of Fisherman's (Watson's) Bay and the innercit ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The Call of the Wild--Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world," E. L. Doctorow wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Generally considered to be London's greatest achievement, The Call of the ...Show more
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
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Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley CorngoldFeaturing essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly fun ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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This is a trade paper edition of Hawthorne's masterpiece, with a new introduction by Kathryn Harrison, issued on the 150th anniversary of publication.