Modern Library, August 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular Western imagination as an extreme faith that promotes authoritarian government, female oppression, civil war, and terrorism. Karen Armstrong's short history offers a vital corrective to this..... More
Modern Library, 1996. Hardcover. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's perfect comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring..... More
Modern Library, October 1996. Hardcover. Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous short stories: "A Christmas Memory, " "One Christmas, " and "A Thanksgiving Memory." All three stories are distinguished..... More
Modern Library, October 1996. Hardcover. Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous short stories: "A Christmas Memory, " "One Christmas, " and "A Thanksgiving Memory." All three stories are distinguished..... More
Modern Library Giant, 1970. Cloth. In price-clipped, edgeworn dustjacket. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine & stamped lilac 'ml' in lilac border. Likewise stamped lilac Modern Library running-man logo with two lilac bars. Tanned end pages. Tanned/su-darkened textblock edges top & fore-edge. (465 pages). More
Modern Library, June 1994. Hardcover. A matchless account of the Battle of Gettysburg, drawn from Shelby Foote's landmark history of the Civil War Shelby Foote's monumental three-part chronicle, The Civil War: A Narrative, was hailed by Walker Percy as "an unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the..... More
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Modern Library, July 2008. Hardcover. In this major new rendition by the acclaimed translator Julie Rose, Victor Hugo's tour de force, Les Misérables, is revealed in its full unabridged glory. A favorite of readers for nearly 150 years, and the basis for one of the most beloved stage musicals ever..... More
Modern Library, August 2000. Hardcover. The Renaissance holds an undying place in the human imagination, and its great heroes remain our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Montaigne. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern; reviving the..... More
Modern Library, April 2008. Cloth. 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Peter Matthiessen's great American epic-Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River, and Bone by Bone-was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has..... More
Modern Library College Editions, January 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. Four & 3/4-inch x Seven-inch. (3/4-inch wider than most mass markets. Large previous owner's rubber stamp verso of front wrapper cover. Creased cover. Darkened textblock pages. (577 pages plus a short one page Plato bibliography & 10 page list of Modern..... More
Modern Library, January 1994. Hardcover. But, as Andrew Skinner reveals in his introduction to this edition, the real sophistication of "The Wealth of Nations" lies less in individual areas of economic analysis than in its overall picture of a vast analytical system--a capitalist economy--in which all the parts can be..... More
