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A Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Charles Dickens; John Irving (Introduction by)
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An immediate bestseller when it was first published in December 1843, A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial Yuletide favorite. Charles Dickens's beloved tale about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who comes to know the meaning of kindness, charity, and goodwill through a haunting Christma ...Show more
A Hazard of New Fortunes by Everett Carter (Introduction by); William Dean Howells; Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (Introduction by)
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Centering on a conflict between a self-made millionaire and an idealistic reformer in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York, A Hazard of New Fortunes insightfully renders the complexities of the American experience at a time of great social and economic upheaval and transformation. In its depiction of ...Show more
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
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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
Chekhov: the Essential Plays - The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and the Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov; Michael Heim (Translator)
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Because Chekhov's plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly ...Show more
Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth by Leo Tolstoy; Michael Scammell (Translator)
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Leo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, was written when he was in his twenties, offering a tantalizing first glimpse of the literary talents that would come to fruition in his later masterpieces. Chronicling the experiences of a wealthy landowner's son as he g ...Show more
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy; Margaret Drabble (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
'I cannot allow any man to - to criticize my private conduct!' Young, attractive and impetuous, Bathsheba has inherited a farm and is determined to be as independent as possible. Her natural beauty is a magnet for men; how will she choose between them? Gabriel Oak is a young farmer, just set up in busin ...Show more
Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoi; Alymer Maude (Notes by, Translator); Azar Nafisi (Introduction by)
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Category: FEATURED ON INSTAGRAM | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Tolstoy's novella blends fiction and historical fact to portray a legendary Avar chieftain who switched sides in the nineteenth-century Russo-Caucasian war. Inspired by the author's military service, Hadji Murád offers riveting views of warfare and treason, murder and vengeance, and behind-the-scenes po ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Swann's Way is the first part of the saga In Search of Lost Time by a classic of theFrench literature Marcel Proust.Back in the day, this book confused the most sympathetic readers and critics,because at the first sight, it was an unsuccessful autobiographic novel that waschronologically complicated and ...Show more
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by W. B. Yeats; Paul Muldoon (Preface by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
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 stori ...Show more
Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis; Charles Johnson (Introduction by)
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A neglected tour de force by the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature, Kingsblood Royal is a stirring & wickedly funny portrait of a man who resigns from the white race. When Neil Kingsblood a typical middle-American banker with a comfortable life makes the shocking discovery that he ...Show more
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac; Kathleen Raine (Translator); Richard Howard (Introduction by)
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"Balzac was] the master unequalled in the art of painting humanity as it exists in modern society," wrote George Sand. "He searched and dared everything." Written between 1837 and 1843, Lost Illusions reveals, perhaps better than any other of Balzac's ninety-two novels, the nature and scope of his geniu ...Show more
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets and Other New York Writings by Stephen Crane; Luc Sante (Introduction by)
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This harrowing tale of a young girl in the slums is a searing portrayal of turn-of-the-century New York, and Stephen Crane's most innovative work. Published in 1893, when the author was just twenty-one, it broke new ground with its vivid characters, its brutal naturalism, and its empathic rendering of t ...Show more