317
Subscribe to our RSS/XML feed with web-based news readers.
Click your choice:
Find more of the Classics by browsing the categories below.
Fiction
Classics
Juvenile Fiction
Classics
Literary Criticism
Ancient & Classics
|
||||
Around the World in Eighty Days
Written by Jules Verne
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $4.99
Jules Verne Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today Around the World in Eighty Days remains Jules Verne’s most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and... Read more >
Written by Jules Verne
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $4.99
Jules Verne Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today Around the World in Eighty Days remains Jules Verne’s most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and... Read more >
|
||||
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Written by Thomas Hardy
Introduction by Robert B. Heilman
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy’s immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty while... Read more >
Written by Thomas Hardy
Introduction by Robert B. Heilman
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy’s immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty while... Read more >
|
||||
The Essential Writings of Machiavelli
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $17.95
FINALIST--2008 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
In The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Peter Constantine has assembled a comprehensive collection that shows the true depth and breadth of a great Renaissance thinker. Refreshingly accessible, these superb new translations are faithful to Machiavelli’s original, beautifully crafted writings.
The volume features essays that appear in English for the... Read more >
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $17.95
FINALIST--2008 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
In The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Peter Constantine has assembled a comprehensive collection that shows the true depth and breadth of a great Renaissance thinker. Refreshingly accessible, these superb new translations are faithful to Machiavelli’s original, beautifully crafted writings.
The volume features essays that appear in English for the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
|
||||
Death in Venice and Other Stories
Written by Thomas Mann
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1988
Price: $5.95
This superb translation of Death in Venice and six other stories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, deserving to be the definitive text for English-speaking readers. These seven stories represent Mann’s early writing career and a level of literary quality Mann himself despaired of ever again matching. In these... Read more >
Written by Thomas Mann
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1988
Price: $5.95
This superb translation of Death in Venice and six other stories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, deserving to be the definitive text for English-speaking readers. These seven stories represent Mann’s early writing career and a level of literary quality Mann himself despaired of ever again matching. In these... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
|
||||
Kidnapped
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1982
Price: $3.95
Spirited, romantic, and full of danger, Kidnapped is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic of high adventure. Beloved by generations, it is the saga of David Balfour, a young heir whose greedy uncle connives to do him out of his inherited fortune and plots to have him seized and sold into slavery. But... Read more >
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1982
Price: $3.95
Spirited, romantic, and full of danger, Kidnapped is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic of high adventure. Beloved by generations, it is the saga of David Balfour, a young heir whose greedy uncle connives to do him out of his inherited fortune and plots to have him seized and sold into slavery. But... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
|
||||
Basic Writings of Existentialism
Edited by Gordon Marino
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $18.00
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 life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine meaning for ourselves. This anthology brings together into... Read more >
Edited by Gordon Marino
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $18.00
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 life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine meaning for ourselves. This anthology brings together into... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
|
||||
Purgatorio
Written by Dante
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1983
Price: $6.95
This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion... Read more >
Written by Dante
Translated by Allen Mandelbaum
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1983
Price: $6.95
This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion... Read more >
|
||||
The Last of the Mohicans
Written by James Fenimore Cooper
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become... Read more >
Written by James Fenimore Cooper
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
eBook,
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
|
||||
The Swiss Family Robinson
Written by Johann David Wyss
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1992
Price: $4.95
“For many days we had been tempest-tossed…the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost.”
From these dire opening lines, a timeless story of adventure begins. One family will emerge alive from this terrible storm: the Robinsons—a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four sons, plus... Read more >
Written by Johann David Wyss
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1992
Price: $4.95
“For many days we had been tempest-tossed…the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost.”
From these dire opening lines, a timeless story of adventure begins. One family will emerge alive from this terrible storm: the Robinsons—a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four sons, plus... Read more >
|
||||
A Wonderful Welcome to Oz
The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, & The Emerald City of Oz
Written by L. Frank Baum
Edited by Gregory Maguire
Illustrated by John R. Neill
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $15.95
For more than a century, L. Frank Baum’s kingdom of Oz and its delightful denizens have enchanted readers of all ages. In this illustrated Modern Library edition, the bestselling novelist and children’s book writer Gregory Maguire takes readers on a guided tour of Oz, gathering and introducing us to three of... Read more >
The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, & The Emerald City of Oz
Written by L. Frank Baum
Edited by Gregory Maguire
Illustrated by John R. Neill
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $15.95
For more than a century, L. Frank Baum’s kingdom of Oz and its delightful denizens have enchanted readers of all ages. In this illustrated Modern Library edition, the bestselling novelist and children’s book writer Gregory Maguire takes readers on a guided tour of Oz, gathering and introducing us to three of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
