• From Here to Eternity: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeTHE COMPLETE UNCENSORED EDITION • THE WORLD WAR II MASTERPIECE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE READ • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD   Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company’s boxing team, he gets “the treatment” that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he’s risking his career to have an affair with his commanding officer’s wife. Both Warde... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0812984315
    • ASIN: 0812984315
    • ISBN: 0812984315
    • Brand: Dial Press
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

  • Deliverance (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    “You're hooked, you feel every cut, grope up every cliff, swallow water with every spill of the canoe, sweat with every draw of the bowstring. Wholly absorbing [and] dramatic.”—Harper's Magazine The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliveranc... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 038531387X
    • ASIN: 038531387X
    • ISBN: 038531387X
    • Brand: Delta
    • Manufacturer: Delta

  • The Great American Read: The Book of Books: Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels

    A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes will air in September and October. Celebrities and everyday Americans will champion their favorite novel and in the finale in late October, America's #1 best-loved novel will b... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0316417556
    • ASIN: 0316417556
    • ISBN: 0316417556
    • Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

  • Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker)WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • The twenty-fifth anniversary edition, featuring a new introduction by the author Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0812976533
    • ASIN: 0812976533
    • ISBN: 9780812976533
    • Brand: Unbranded
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

  • As I Lay Dying (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short StoriesOne of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren’s family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0375504524
    • UPC: 880792745071
    • ASIN: 0375504524
    • ISBN: 0375504524
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

  • The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)


    • ASIN: B002TXZS8A
    • ASIN: B002TXZS8A
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

    • ASIN: 0385333846
    • ASIN: 0385333846
    • ISBN: 0812988523
    • Brand: Delta
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

  • The Way of All Flesh (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeThe Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel."   Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0375752498
    • ASIN: 0375752498
    • ISBN: 0375752498
    • Brand: Butler, Samuel
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

  • Ragtime: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nes... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0812978188
    • ASIN: 0812978188
    • ISBN: 0812978188
    • Brand: Random House Trade
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

  • Heart of Darkness & Selections from The Congo Diary

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadIntroduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip GourevitchOriginally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century’s most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad’s grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and t... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 037575377X
    • ASIN: 037575377X
    • ISBN: 037575377X
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

  • The Magnificent Ambersons (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeWinner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the family's magnificence. Eclipsed by a new breed of developers, financiers, and manufacturers, this pampered scion begins his gradual descent from the midwestern aristocracy to the working class. Today The Magnifi... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0375752501
    • ASIN: 0375752501
    • ISBN: 0375752501
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

  • The Rainbow (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timePronounced obscene when it was first published in 1915, The Rainbow is the epic story of three generations of the Brangwens, a Midlands family. A visionary novel, considered to be one of Lawrence’s finest, it explores the complex sexual and psychological relationships between men and women in an increasingly industrialized world. “Lives are separate, but life is continuous—it continues in the fresh start by the separate life in each generation,” wrote F. R. Leavis. “No work, I think, has presented this perception... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0375759654
    • ASIN: 0375759654
    • ISBN: 0375759654
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

  • Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels : An English-Language Selection, 1946-1987

    Recommends the hundred best modern fantasy novels and offers brief summaries of each work

    • ASIN: 0872263282
    • ASIN: 0872263282
    • ISBN: 0872263282
    • Manufacturer: Peter Bedrick Books

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

    • ASIN: 0060883286
    • ASIN: 0060883286
    • ISBN: 9780060883287
    • Brand: Gabriel Garc 237 a M 225 rquez
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

  • Invisible Man (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadInvisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0679601392
    • ASIN: 0679601392
    • ISBN: 9780679601395
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

  • Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels - eBook

    Pringle presents his selections in chronological order and includes a synopsis of the story, a discussion of the author's overall contribution to fantasy literature, critical commentary on the title's significance, and a brief publishing history.

    • UPC: 955163680

  • Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels - eBook

    From one of the best-known editors in modern science fiction, this lively and authoritative guide will appeal to both newcomers and connoisseurs of the genre alike. Informative and readable, David Pringle's choices focus on landmark

    • UPC: 733794071
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Great American Read: The Book of Books : Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels

    A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels?

    • UPC: 270948048

  • The 100 Best Novels in English

    Books : The 100 Best Novels: In English

    • UPC: 681964827
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Best Short Stories of the Modern Age

    Stylistic and thematic trends in the development of the short story are demonstrated in major works by twenty outstanding writers from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Sargeant

    • UPC: 441345
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Before We Were Yours : A Novel

    "Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone ... one stormy night. Rill Foss ... must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched

    • UPC: 55344290
    • Rating: 4.648

  • Behind Closed Doors : A Novel

    "First published in Great Britain by MIRA/Harlequin, HarperCollins UK"--Title page

    • UPC: 55312170
    • Rating: 4.096

  • Fahrenheit 451 : A Novel

    "A shorter version of Fahrenheit 451 appeared in Galazy Science Fiction under the title The fireman"--T.p.

    • UPC: 19532376
    • Color: Multicolor
    • Rating: 4.182

  • American Short Story Masterpieces : A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

    This collection of thirty-six classic short stories from the fifties to the eighties features works by authors such as James Baldwin, Barry Hannah, Bernard Halamud, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, Anne Beattie, and Tobias

    • UPC: 446464
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Nightingale : A Novel

    Includes a reading group guide with an interview with the author, recommended reading list, and discussion

    • UPC: 51798233
    • Rating: 4.422

  • Modern Library 100 Best Novels: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1999,...

    • UPC: 174222628236
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 2 USD

  • Deliverance (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Dickey, James

    • UPC: 372934451886
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 4 USD

  • Modern Library 100 Best Novels: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1991,...

    • UPC: 274306812397
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 0 USD

  • Zuleika Dobson Modern Library 100 Best Novels

    • UPC: 352934873044
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 3 USD

  • As I Lay Dying [Modern Library 100 Best Novels]

    • UPC: 402044514794
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 9 USD

  • Modern Library 100 Best Novels: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1999,...

    • UPC: 274202401674
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 5 USD

  • Modern Library 100 Best Novels: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1991,...

    • UPC: 133366912549
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
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  • The Magnificent Ambersons (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Booth Tarkington

    • UPC: 302335353223
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 3 USD

  • Ulysses (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) (ExLib) by Joyce, James

    • UPC: 143441025576
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 4 USD

  • Modern Library 100 Best Novels: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1991,...

    • UPC: 333513915859
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 5 USD

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