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Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by David Magarshack
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2012
Price: $9.99
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 works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an... Read more >
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Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 11, 2012
Price: $12.99
The epic grandeur of Dante’s masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, and has entered the human imagination. But the further we move from the late medieval world of Dante, the more a rich understanding and enjoyment of the poem depends on knowledgeable guidance. Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master... Read more >
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Written by Daniel Defoe
Introduction by Jason Goodwin
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2012
Price: $8.99
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 between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life... Read more >
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Written by L. Frank Baum
Introduction by Ray Bradbury
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2012
Price: $9.99
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 and beguiled readers of all ages since it was first published in 1900. Ray Bradbury writes in his Introduction, “Both... Read more >
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Written by Sandor Szathmari
Translated by Inez Kemenes
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
A page-turning dystopian classic that stands alongside Brave New World and Gulliver's Travels.
Voyage to Kazohinia is a tour de force of twentieth-century literature--and it is here published in English for the first time outside of Hungary. Sándor Szathmári's comical novel chronicles the travels of a modern Gulliver on the eve of... Read more >
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Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion
Written by Jane Austen
Format: eBook, 736 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2012
Price: $2.99
The second volume in the Complete Novels of Jane Austen, this volume contains the classics Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Read more >
Written by Vasily Grossman
Translated by Robert Chandler
Introduction by Robert Chandler
Format: eBook, 896 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2012
Price: $24.95
A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century. Interweaving... Read more >
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Written by Edith Wharton
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $9.95
One of Edith Wharton’s most famous novels—the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize—exquisitely details a tragic struggle between love and responsibility in Gilded Age New York.
Newland Archer, an aristocratic young lawyer, is engaged to the cloistered, beautiful May Welland. But when May’s cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, fleeing...
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Written by Edith Wharton
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $5.99
One of Edith Wharton’s most famous novels—the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize—exquisitely details a tragic struggle between love and responsibility in Gilded Age New York.
Newland Archer, an aristocratic young lawyer, is engaged to the cloistered, beautiful May Welland. But when May’s cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, fleeing...
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Written by Mark Twain
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: Hardcover, 744 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $28.00
These sixty satirical, rollicking, uproarious tales by the greatest yarn-spinner in our literary history are as fresh and vivid as ever more than a century after their author’s death.
Mark Twain’s famous novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have long been hailed as major achievements, but the father of American literature also...
