Modernity/Post-Modernity Survey

Explore the best books on modernity and post-modernity with our comprehensive survey. Discover key texts, critiques, and insights shaping contemporary thought and culture.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar …

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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

by Franz Kafka

Superb collection by modern master explores the complexity, anxiety, and futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story — considered by …

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The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene

An assistant police commissioner in a West African coastal town lets passion overrule his honor.

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Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway is the portrait of a single day in a woman's life.

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The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

A group of expatriates travel from Paris to the Pamplona bullfights.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the …

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Waiting for Godot

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Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time). Selected by the Modern Library …

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