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A Princess of Mars by Frank E. (ILT) Ray (INT); Schoonover Edgar Rice; Bradbury Burroughs
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Modern Library Classics
Basic Writings of Existentialism by Gordon Daniel Marino
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The perfect choice for those who wonder what existentialism is all about. Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because ...Show more
Bleak House by H. K. (ILT) Mary (INT); Browne Charles; Gaitskill Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics
Ethics - The Essential Writings by Gordon Marino (Editor)
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
"In Ethics- The Essential Writings, philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years of thought from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter Sing ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Swann's Way is the first part of the saga In Search of Lost Time by a classic of theFrench literature Marcel Proust.Back in the day, this book confused the most sympathetic readers and critics,because at the first sight, it was an unsuccessful autobiographic novel that waschronologically complicated and ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #3: The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The "Guermantes Way," in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes's ch teau near Combray. It also represents the narrator's passage into the rarefied "social kaleidoscope" of the Guermantes's Paris salon, an important intellectua ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #4: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Sodom and Gomorrah opens a new phase of In Search of Lost Time. While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guer-mantes's orchid, the narrator secretly observes a sexual encounter between two men. "Flower and plant have no conscious will," Samuel Beckett wrote of Proust's representation of sexualit ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #6: Time Regained by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Time Regained, the final volume of In Search of Lost Time, begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature--his past life. This Mode ...Show more
Klondike Tales by Christopher Gary (INT); Gair Jack; Kinder London
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
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Category: Critical Thinking | 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
Mysterious Island by VERNE JULES
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Modern Library Classics
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, "The Mysterious Island" is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. "Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable tr ...Show more