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Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was born in Florence. He served the Florentine republic as secretary and second chancellor, but was expelled from public life when the Medici family returned to power in 1512. His other works include The Discourses, The Art of War, and the comic satire The Mandrake.
Peter Constantine is the recipient of a PEN Translation Prize and a National Translation Award. His Modern Library translations include The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Voltaire’s Candide, and Tolstoy’s The Cossacks. He lives in New York City.
Albert Russell Ascoli is Gladys Arata Terrill Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley... Read More
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Taras Bulba
Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $11.95
This is the first new translation in forty years. Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Taras Bulba is Gogol’s epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba’s two sons.
As Robert... Read more >
Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $11.95
This is the first new translation in forty years. Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Taras Bulba is Gogol’s epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba’s two sons.
As Robert... Read more >
Taras Bulba
Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan
Format: eBook
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 1, 2003
Price: $11.95
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Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan
Format: eBook
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 1, 2003
Price: $11.95
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The Essential Writings of Machiavelli
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Format: eBook
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 8, 2009
Price: $17.95
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Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Format: eBook
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 8, 2009
Price: $17.95
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The Essential Writings of Machiavelli
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $17.95
Finalist for the 2008 Pen Translation Award
“Essential is right. This compact and brilliantly edited volume enfolds not just The Prince, but also a splendidly translated assortment of political works, essays, and treatises, as well as a fine selection of literary gems and letters. Of particular value is the careful footnoting and... Read more >
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $17.95
Finalist for the 2008 Pen Translation Award
“Essential is right. This compact and brilliantly edited volume enfolds not just The Prince, but also a splendidly translated assortment of political works, essays, and treatises, as well as a fine selection of literary gems and letters. Of particular value is the careful footnoting and... Read more >
The Prince
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $8.00
The first modern treatise of political philosophy, The Prince remains one of the world’s most influential and widely read books. Machiavelli, whose name has become synonymous with expedient exercises of will, reveals nothing less than the secrets of power: how to gain it, how to wield it, and how to keep... Read more >
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $8.00
The first modern treatise of political philosophy, The Prince remains one of the world’s most influential and widely read books. Machiavelli, whose name has become synonymous with expedient exercises of will, reveals nothing less than the secrets of power: how to gain it, how to wield it, and how to keep... Read more >
The Cossacks
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Cynthia Ozick
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $11.95
”Tolstoy’s lavish and always graphic use of detail,” wrote John Bayley, “together of course with its romance and exotic setting . . . has made The Cossacks the most popular of all his works.” This vibrant new translation of Tolstoy’s 1862 novel, by PEN Translation Award winner Peter Constantine, is the... Read more >
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Cynthia Ozick
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $11.95
”Tolstoy’s lavish and always graphic use of detail,” wrote John Bayley, “together of course with its romance and exotic setting . . . has made The Cossacks the most popular of all his works.” This vibrant new translation of Tolstoy’s 1862 novel, by PEN Translation Award winner Peter Constantine, is the... Read more >
Candide
or, Optimism
Written by Voltaire
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Diane Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $10.00
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or, Optimism
Written by Voltaire
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Diane Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $10.00
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