Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: library, classics, modern, woman, urbervilles, tess
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2001-02-13
List price: $9.00
ISBN-10: 0375756795
ISBN-13: 9780375756795

Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d’Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy’s ’bestseller,’ and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men?Alec d’Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who seduces her in a lonely wood, and Angel Clare, her provincial, moralistic, and unforgiving husband?Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act. ’Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond

Authors:A.s. Byatt, Richard Burton,
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: nights, library, classics, modern, thousand, tales, arabian, one
Number of Pages: 912
Published: 2001-04-10
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0375756752
ISBN-13: 9780375756757

Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton’s multivolume translation, and includes Burton&

Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: classics, library, modern, moonstone
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2001-09-11
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0375757856
ISBN-13: 9780375757853

"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.This Modern Library

Authors:John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge,
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: modern, library, chronicles, idea, revolutionary, short, history, company
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-03-04
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0679642498
ISBN-13: 9780679642497

From the acclaimed authors of A Future Perfect comes the untold story of how the company became the world’s most powerful institution.Like all groundbreaking books, The Company fills a hole we didn’t know existed, revealing that we cannot make sense of the past four hundred years until we place that seemingly humble Victorian innovation, the joint-stock company, in the center of the frame. With their trademark authority and wit, Economist editors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge reveal the company to be one of history’s great catalysts, for good and for ill, a mighty e

Author: Jane Jaco
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: library, series, modern, cities, life, american, death
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 1993-02-09
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0679600477
ISBN-13: 9780679600473

Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book’s arguments." Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixtie

Authors:Thomas Hardy,  J.I.M. Stewart,
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: classics, library, modern, casterbridge, mayor
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2002-05-14
List price: $9.00
ISBN-10: 0375760067
ISBN-13: 9780375760068

One of Hardyâ??s most powerful novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchardâ??having gained power and success as the mayorâ??finds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a rich, psychological novel about a man whose own flaws combine with fate to cause his ruin. This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the authoritative 1912 Wessex edition,

Authors:George Eliot,  Edmund White,
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: classics, library, modern, deronda, daniel
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 2002-07-09
List price: $11.00
ISBN-10: 037576013X
ISBN-13: 9780375760136

George Eliot’s final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Deronda contrasts the moral laxity of the British aristocracy with the dedicated fervor of Jewish nationalists. Crushed by a loveless marriage to the cruel and arrogant Grandcourt, Gwendolen Harleth seeks salvation in the deeply spiritual and altruistic Daniel Deronda. But Deronda, profoundly affected by the discovery of his Jewish ancestry, is ultimately too committed to his own cultural awakening to save Gwendolen from despair. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1878 Cabinet Edition.