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  • Day of the Triffids, The
    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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  • Kraken Wakes, The
    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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  • Midwich Cuckoos, The
    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
    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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  • De Profundis
    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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  • Essential writing of ralph waldo emerson
    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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  • Paradise Lost
    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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  • Best Short Stories of O. Henry, The
    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
    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
    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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  • Short Stories by Latin American Women
    Short Stories by Latin American Women
    Correas de Zapata, Celia
    Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated into English by such renowned scholars and writers as Gregory Rabassa and Margaret Sayers Peden. Contributors include Dora Alonso, Rosario Ferré, Elena Poniatowska, Ana Lydia Vega, ...

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  • A Christmas Memory
    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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  • Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The
    Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The
    McCullers, Carson
    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underli...

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  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, The
    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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  • Siddhartha
    Siddhartha
    Hesse, Hermann
    Though set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the book’s debut, the novel is infused with the sensibilities of Hermann Hesse’s time, synthesizing disparate philosophies--Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism--into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man’s search for meaning.It is the story of the quest of Si...

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  • Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, The
    Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent...
    Vincent Millay, Edna St.
    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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  • Sound and the Fury, The
    Sound and the Fury, The
    Faulkner, William

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  • Ulysses
    Ulysses
    Joyce, James

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  • Absalom, Absalom!
    Absalom, Absalom!
    Faulkner, William

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  • Day of the Triffids, The
    Day of the Triffids, The
    Wyndham, John

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  • Snopes
    Snopes
    Faulkner, William

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  • Out of Africa
    Out of Africa
    Dinesen, Isak

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  • Selected Short Stories
    Selected Short Stories
    Faulkner, William

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

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  • Islam
    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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  • Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
    Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John...
    Donne, John
    This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her," and "To His Mistris Going to Bed." Presented as well are Donne's satires, epigrams, verse...

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  • As I Lay Dying
    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 John Keats
    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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  • Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
    Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
    Thompson, Hunter S.

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  • Basic Writings, The
    Basic Writings, The
    Jung, Carl Gustav

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