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  • Day of the Triffids, The
    Wyndham, John
    What if a meteor shower left most of the world blind--and humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants? Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he quickly realizes that surviving in this strange new world requires evading strangers and the seven-foot-tall plants known as trif...

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  • Midwich Cuckoos, The
    Wyndham, John
    What if the women of a sleepy English village all became simultaneously pregnant, and the children, once born, possessed supernatural (and possibly alien) powers? A mysterious silver object appears in quiet, picture-perfect Midwich. A day later, the object is gone, and all the women in the village, they will come to learn, are now pregnant. The resultant children of Midwich are...

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  • Tales, Poems, and Other Writings
    Melville, Herman
    From short masterpieces like “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Billy Budd” to more obscure, even completely unknown works like the epic poem "Clarel,” Melville’s stories and poems rank among his greatest and most gripping work. This unique anthology--the first of its kind in fifty years--gathers together all of Melville’s tales, as well as a judiciously edited array of his prose po...

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  • Spanish Civil War, The
    Thomas, Hugh
    "Mr. Thomas has understood [the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject."--Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book Review A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars o...

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  • Essential writing of ralph waldo emerson
    Emerson, Ralph Waldo
    Introduction by Mary OliverCommentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar." As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson emb...

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  • Best Short Stories of O. Henry, The
    Henry, O.
    The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume. The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously by anthologists and those that represent, in variety and balance, the best work of America's favorite storyteller. They are ...

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  • In Cold Blood
    Capote, Truman
    The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the "new journalism." Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions....

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  • Complete Stories, The
    Capote, Truman
    "From the Modern Library´s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are ´Breakfast at Tiffany´s ´and´ Other Voices, Other Rooms ´(in one volume), ´ In Cold Blood, ´and ´Portraits and Observations´ Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of ´Breakfast at Tiffany´s´ and ´In Cold Blood, ´ or they remember his notorious social life...

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  • Waste Land and Other Writings, The
    Eliot, T.S.
    Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred WoodIntroduction by Mary Karr First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption,...

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  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, The
    Dickinson, Emily
    Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world"--the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today, Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets. This enthralling collection includes more than four hundred poems that were published between Dickinson's death and 1900. They express her ...

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  • Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent...
    St. Vincent Millay, Edna
    An indispensable collection of the groundbreaking poet's most masterful and innovative work, celebrating a bold early voice of female liberation, independence, and queer sexuality--featuring a new introduction by poet Olivia Gatwood, author of Life of the PartyEdna St. Vincent Millay defined a generation as one of the most critically acclaimed poets of the Modernist era. Her wo...

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  • A Christmas Memory
    Capote, Truman
    First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection from Truman Capote (In Cold Blood; Breakfast at Tiffany’s) about his rural Alabama boyhood is a perfect gift for Capote’s fans young and old.Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin, Miss Sook Falk: “It’s fruitcake weather!” Thus begins an unforgettable portrai...

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  • Sound and the Fury, The
    Faulkner, William

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  • Absalom, Absalom!
    Faulkner, William

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  • Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
    Thompson, Hunter S.

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  • Day of the Triffids, The
    Wyndham, John

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  • Snopes
    Faulkner, William

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  • Selected Short Stories
    Faulkner, William

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  • Kraken Wakes, The
    Wyndham, John
    What if aliens invaded and colonized Earth’s oceans rather than its land?Britain, 1953: It begins with red dots appearing across the sky and crashing to the oceans’ deeps. At first, many people believe that these aliens are interested in only what’s down below. But when the polar ice-caps begin to melt, it becomes clear that these beings are not interested in sharing the Earth ...

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  • Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
    Yeats, William Butler (Editor)
    Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stories evoke both tender pathos and lighthearted mirth and embody what Yeats des...

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  • Islam
    Armstrong, Karen
    No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and civil war. In a vital revision of this narrow view of Islam and a distillation of years of thinking and writing about the subject, Karen Armstrong’s short history demonstrates tha...

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  • Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
    Chekhov, Anton
    Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life. Considered the greatest sho...

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  • De Profundis
    Wilde, Oscar
    Written from Wilde’s prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas’s behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde’s own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a bracingly honest account of ruinous attachment and a profo...

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  • Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, The
    Chesterton, G.K.

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  • As I Lay Dying
    Faulkner, William
    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time From 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 Stories One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remain...

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  • Complete Poems and Selected Letters of...
    Keats, John
    'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a tragic early death. Edmund Wilson counted him as 'one of the half dozen great...

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  • Ulysses
    Joyce, James

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  • Paradise Lost
    Milton, John
    Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. FallonJohn Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free will, and divinity, and one of the most beautiful works in world literature. Extracted from the Modern Library’s highly acclaimed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milt...

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  • Basic Writings, The
    Jung, Carl Gustav

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  • Out of Africa
    Dinesen, Isak

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