Classics

Matarajio Adimu (Great Expectations)

by Charles Dickens

Matarajio Adhimu ni kitabu cha riwaya za Charles Dickens. Riwaya ambazo kwa mara ya kwanza zilichapishwa kwa mfululizo kwa mwaka mzima kuanzia tarehe 1 Desemba 1860 hadi mwezi Agusti 1861. Riwaya ambazo zimeweza...

Mary Wakefield

by Mazo de la Roche

Mary Wakefield is third on the timeline of the Jalna series. Mary, a young Englishwoman, is hired to care for Philips motherless children, Meg and Renny. When Philip falls in love with the beautiful governess,...

The Confidence-Man

by Herman Melville & John Bryant

“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader...

Morning at Jalna

by Mazo de la Roche

It is 1863 and life at Jalna is peaceful. Philip, who will grow up to become the master of Jalna, has just come into the world, while Augusta, Nicholas, and Ernest are children. However, the Sinclairs come to...

Great Expectations: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Charles Dickens & Francine Prose

A graphic deluxe edition to mark its 150th anniversary.

A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her...

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

"        Like so many fond parents I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child," wrote Charles Dickens. "And his name is David Copperfield."

        Of all of Dickens's novels,...

The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction

by Henry James

To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious...

Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer

by Joseph Conrad

Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga...

The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by William Shakespeare

Contains the complete text of such Shakespeare tragedies as Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and Macbeth.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum & Ray Bradbury

L. Frank Baum’s timeless classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was the first uniquely American fairy tale. A combination of enchanting fantasy and piercing social commentary, this remarkable story has entertained...

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

by Fyodor Dostoevsky & David Magarshack

This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer...

The Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

Santore's version of the L. Frank Baum fantasy is highly visual yet faithful to the original story. never before have the Land of the Munchkins been more enchanting, the forest of Oz more foreboding, or the...

A Journal of the Plague Year

by Daniel Defoe & Jason Goodwin

Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line...

The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion

by Jane Austen

The second volume in the Complete Novels of Jane Austen, this volume contains the classics Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain

Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan brings to...

Silas Marner

by George Eliot

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Introduction by Rosemary Ashton

The isolated, misanthropic, miserly weaver Silas Marner is one of George Eliot’s greatest creations, and his presence casts a strange, otherworldly...

Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of French Canada

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.

The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

Capturing the grandeur of a gracious, splendid Europe of wealth and Old World sensibilities, this glorious, complex novel has become a touchstone for a great writer’s entire literary achievement. From the...

The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton

Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America’s nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine,...

Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction

by Edith Wharton

On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until...