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The Rise of David Levinsky
Written by Abraham Cahan
Introduction by Seth Lipsky
Format: eBook, 556 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2012
Price: $11.99
The Rise of David Levinsky, written by the legendary founder and editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, is an early Jewish-American classic. According to the scholar Sam B. Girgus, "The novel is more than an important literary work and cultural document. It forms part of the traditional ritual of renewal of... Read more >
Written by Abraham Cahan
Introduction by Seth Lipsky
Format: eBook, 556 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2012
Price: $11.99
The Rise of David Levinsky, written by the legendary founder and editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, is an early Jewish-American classic. According to the scholar Sam B. Girgus, "The novel is more than an important literary work and cultural document. It forms part of the traditional ritual of renewal of... Read more >
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Purgatorio
Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: July 25, 2012
Price: $14.99
Now I shall sing the second kingdom,
there where the soul of man is cleansed,
made worthy to ascend to heaven.
In the second book of Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at... Read more >
Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: July 25, 2012
Price: $14.99
Now I shall sing the second kingdom,
there where the soul of man is cleansed,
made worthy to ascend to heaven.
In the second book of Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at... Read more >
Voyage to Kazohinia
Written by Sandor Szathmari
Translated by Inez Kemenes
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 24, 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 >
Written by Sandor Szathmari
Translated by Inez Kemenes
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 24, 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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The Modern Library Collection Children's Classics 5-Book Bundle
The Wind in the Willows, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, The Three Musketeers
Written by Kenneth Grahame, Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie and Alexandre Dumas
Format: eBook, 1312 pages
On Sale: July 23, 2012
Price: $19.99
For young dreamers, nostalgic parents, and imaginative readers of all ages, this wonderful eBook collection not only contains five of the most beloved children’s books in the world but some of the most admired and enduring literature ever put to page. Each of these can be considered a “Household Book,” as... Read more >
The Wind in the Willows, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, The Three Musketeers
Written by Kenneth Grahame, Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie and Alexandre Dumas
Format: eBook, 1312 pages
On Sale: July 23, 2012
Price: $19.99
For young dreamers, nostalgic parents, and imaginative readers of all ages, this wonderful eBook collection not only contains five of the most beloved children’s books in the world but some of the most admired and enduring literature ever put to page. Each of these can be considered a “Household Book,” as... Read more >
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The Idiot (Vintage Classics)
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.
After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray... Read more >
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.
After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray... Read more >
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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
Preface by Paul Muldoon
Edited by William Butler Yeats
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stories evoke both tender pathos and lighthearted mirth... Read more >
Preface by Paul Muldoon
Edited by William Butler Yeats
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stories evoke both tender pathos and lighthearted mirth... Read more >
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Paradiso
Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander
Format: eBook, 1024 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $14.99
With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar... Read more >
Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander
Format: eBook, 1024 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $14.99
With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar... Read more >
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Tom Jones
Written by Henry Fielding
Edited by Fredson Bowers
Introduction by Martin C. Battestin
Format: eBook, 1024 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $8.99
Tom, a foundling, is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household; when his sexual escapades and general misbehavior lead them to banish him, he sets out in search of both his fortune and his true identity. Amorous... Read more >
Written by Henry Fielding
Edited by Fredson Bowers
Introduction by Martin C. Battestin
Format: eBook, 1024 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $8.99
Tom, a foundling, is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household; when his sexual escapades and general misbehavior lead them to banish him, he sets out in search of both his fortune and his true identity. Amorous... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Dead Souls
Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Donald Rayfield
Introduction by Donald Rayfield
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2012
Price: $15.95
An NYRB Classics Original
The first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, Dead Souls is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes consternation in a small Russian town when he shows up out of nowhere proposing to buy title to... Read more >
Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Donald Rayfield
Introduction by Donald Rayfield
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2012
Price: $15.95
An NYRB Classics Original
The first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, Dead Souls is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes consternation in a small Russian town when he shows up out of nowhere proposing to buy title to... Read more >
Dead Souls
Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Donald Rayfield
Introduction by Donald Rayfield
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2012
Price: $15.95
An NYRB Classics Original
The first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, Dead Souls is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes consternation in a small Russian town when he shows up out of nowhere proposing to buy title to... Read more >
Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Donald Rayfield
Introduction by Donald Rayfield
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2012
Price: $15.95
An NYRB Classics Original
The first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, Dead Souls is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes consternation in a small Russian town when he shows up out of nowhere proposing to buy title to... Read more >
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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
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 >
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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trade paperback.
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The Inferno
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 >
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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A Journal of the Plague Year
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 >
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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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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 >
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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unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Voyage to Kazohinia
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 >
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2
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 >
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 >
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Life and Fate
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 >
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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The Age of Innocence
Written by Edith Wharton
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $9.95
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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The Age of Innocence
Written by Edith Wharton
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $5.99
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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The Complete Short Stories
Written by Mark Twain
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: Hardcover, 744 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $28.00
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...
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The Custom of the Country
Written by Edith Wharton
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $5.99
Written by Edith Wharton
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $5.99
Edith Wharton’s lacerating satire on marriage and materialism in turn-of-the-century New York features her most selfish, ruthless, and irresistibly outrageous female character.
Undine Spragg is an exquisitely beautiful but ferociously acquisitive young woman from the Midwest who comes to New York to seek her fortune. She achieves her social ambitions—but only at...
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The Custom of the Country
Written by Edith Wharton
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $10.95
Written by Edith Wharton
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $10.95
Edith Wharton’s lacerating satire on marriage and materialism in turn-of-the-century New York features her most selfish, ruthless, and irresistibly outrageous female character.
Undine Spragg is an exquisitely beautiful but ferociously acquisitive young woman from the Midwest who comes to New York to seek her fortune. She achieves her social ambitions—but only at...
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Ethan Frome
Written by Edith Wharton
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $7.95
Edith Wharton’s most widely read work is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village.
This brilliantly wrought, tragic novella explores the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the elevated social milieu usually inhabited by Wharton’s characters. Ethan... Read more >
Written by Edith Wharton
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $7.95
Edith Wharton’s most widely read work is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village.
This brilliantly wrought, tragic novella explores the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the elevated social milieu usually inhabited by Wharton’s characters. Ethan... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Ethan Frome
Written by Edith Wharton
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $6.99
Edith Wharton’s most widely read work is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village.
This brilliantly wrought, tragic novella explores the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the elevated social milieu usually inhabited by Wharton’s characters. Ethan... Read more >
Written by Edith Wharton
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $6.99
Edith Wharton’s most widely read work is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village.
This brilliantly wrought, tragic novella explores the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the elevated social milieu usually inhabited by Wharton’s characters. Ethan... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The House of Mirth
Written by Edith Wharton
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $9.95
Written by Edith Wharton
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $9.95
Set among the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York, Edith Wharton’s most popular novel is a moving indictment of a society whose soul-crushing limitations destroy a woman too spirited to be contained by them.
The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the...
