Classics

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde & Irvine Welsh

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSH

Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury,...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pap, and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi...

The Turn of the Screw & In the Cage

by Henry James & Hortense Calisher

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature's most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James's most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by...

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's...

The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers & Milton Bearden

While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret German plot to invade England. Written by Childers—who served in the Royal Navy during World War I—as a wake-up...

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

by Gustave Flaubert, Lafcadio Hearn & Michel Foucault

A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert’s lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of the third-century...

Heart of Darkness: (Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Joseph Conrad & Adam Hochschild

Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism in a deluxe edition with a gripping cover by Hellboy artist Mike Mignola

Heart of Darkness is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer...

The Discovery of America by the Turks

by Jorge Amado & Gregory Rabassa

For the first time in English: legendary Brazilian author Jorge Amado's spirited novella about Arab immigrants to South America—published for the centennial of Amado's birth

Two Arab immigrants—"Turks" as...

The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray

by Jorge Amado & Gregory Rabassa

The great Brazilian novelist's comic masterpiece—published in a new translation for the centennial of Jorge Amado's birth

Here is the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, a Falstaff-like character who abandons...

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

"Sense and Sensibility" is the first novel wrote by the English novelist Jane Austen, under the pseudonym "A Lady". The story is about Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr Dashwood by his second wife. They...

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

"Far from the Madding Crowd" is Thomas Hardy's first major literary success. Gabriel Oak is an up-and-coming shepherd in the prime of life at twenty-eight years of age. With the savings of a frugal life, he...

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

"Little Women" is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott. The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. The novel follows the lives of four sisters -...

Bouvard and Pécuchet

by Gustave Flaubert

"Bouvard and Pécuchet" is a satirical work by Gustave Flaubert. "Bouvard and Pécuchet" details the adventures of two Parisian copy-clerks, François Denys Bartholomée Bouvard and Juste Romain Cyrille Pécuchet,...

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

"The Mill on the Floss" is based partially on Eliot's own experiences with her family and her brother Isaac, who was three years older than Eliot. Eliot's father, like Mr. Tulliver in the novel, was a businessman...

Maria Chapdelaine

by Louis Hemon

A young woman living with her family on the frontier in Quebec, Maria endures the hardships of isolation and climate and must choose between three suitors.

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

"Pride and Prejudice" has become one of the most popular novels in English literature, and receives considerable attention from literary scholars. Though the story's setting is characteristically turn-of-the-19th-century,...

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

"Persuasion" is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August, 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; "Persuasion" was published in December of that year...

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

"Northanger Abbey" was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication. Northanger Abbey follows 17-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen...

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy’s passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According...

Of Human Bondage: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by W. Somerset Maugham

'It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham,' wrote Gore Vidal. 'He was always so entirely there.' Originally published in 1915,...