The Brothers Karamazov
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Format: Paperback, 1072 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1984
Price: $7.99
In 1880 Dostoevsky completed
The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and...
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The Promise
Written by Chaim Potok
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he’s in love, and he’s studying to be a rabbi. He also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die.
One day, worried about a disturbed, unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven takes...
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Jo's Boys
Written by Louisa May Alcott
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1995
Price: $4.95
Best known for the novels
Little Women and
Little Men, Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, surprising, and bittersweet conclusion in
Jo’s Boys. Beginning ten years after
Little Men, Jo’s Boys revisits Plumfield, the...
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them
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Introduction by Elaine Showalter
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $16.00
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. As powerful and relevant today as it on its initial publication,
them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge of ruin in the Detroit slums...
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The Painted Veil
Written by W. Somerset Maugham
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $15.00
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s,
The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and...
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News of a Kidnapping
Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Edith Grossman
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $15.95
In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Medellín drug cartel – kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, García Márquez describes the survivors’ perilous ordeal and the bizarre drama of the negotiations for their release. He...
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Bleak House
Written by Charles Dickens
Format: Paperback, 976 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1985
Price: $6.95
Widely regarded as Dickens’s masterpiece,
Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which “whole families have inherited legendary hatreds.” Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther’s romantic coming-of-age and, in classic Dickensian style, the gradual revelation of long-buried secrets, all set...
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Written by Thomas Hardy
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1981
Price: $5.99
From its spectacular opening–the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair–to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion,
The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels.
Rooted in an actual...
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Collected Poems
Written by W. H. Auden
Edited by Edward Mendelson
Format: Hardcover, 976 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $40.00
To commemorate the centennial of W. H. Auden’s birth, the Modern Library offers this elegant edition of the collected poems of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.
This volume includes all the poems that Auden wished to preserve, in a text that includes his final revisions, with corrections...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Written by George Orwell
Format: Hardcover, 376 pages
On Sale: November 3, 1992
Price: $21.00
Nineteen Eighty-Four revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century’s greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and power to disturb...
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