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A Princess of Mars by Frank E. (ILT) Ray (INT); Schoonover Edgar Rice; Bradbury Burroughs
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics
Concerned for her family's financial welfare and eager to expand her own horizons, Agnes Grey takes up the position of governess, the only respectable employment for an unmarried woman in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, Agnes cannot anticipate the hardship, humiliation, and loneliness that await ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: AND Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll; A. S. Byatt (Introduction by); John Tenniel (Illustrator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There have enchanted readers for generations. The topsy-turvy drea ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to cond ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics
Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses the far reaches of the eart ...Show more
Basic Writings of Existentialism by Gordon Daniel Marino
Category: Fiction | 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
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
"O mother, mother! What have you done?"--"Coriolanus" Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this gripping political and personal tragedy--along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including - an original Introduction to "Coriolan ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes; Tobias George Smollett (Translator); Carlos Fuentes (Introduction by); Stephanie Kirk (Notes by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determin ...Show more
Ethics - The Essential Writings by Gordon Marino (Editor)
Category: Reference | 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
Father Brown: The Essential Tales by G K Chesterton
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man's frailties-gained during his years listening to confessions-Father Brown succeeds in bringing even the most elusive criminals to justice. ...Show more
GREEK PLAYS SIXTEEN PLAYS BY AESCHYLUS SOPHOCLES & EURIPIDES by LEFKOWITZ MARY (ED)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world's most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the King Featuring translations by Emily Wilson, Frank Nisetich, Sar ...Show more