Modern Library imprint: 414 books
The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle
Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
In the long history of philosophy and literature, few have been so widely read and admired as the great thinkers of Greece and Rome. For modern audiences, this eBook bundle—which collects the Modern Library editions of three classics: Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, Selected Dialogues of Plato,...
The Modern Library Writer's Workshop
A Guide to the Craft of Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
“Make [your] characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.” —Kurt Vonnegut
“‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story, but ‘the...
The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle
Remembrance of Things Past, Volumes I-VI
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Now in a convenient eBook bundle, this Modern Library edition provides the most authoritative, critically acclaimed translation of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in six volumes, In Search of Lost Time, which includes Swann’s Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, Sodom and Gomorrah, The...
Advice to the Writer
The Writer's Guide to Plot, Revision, and Autobiography: A Digital Pamphlet: Excerpted from The Modern Library's Writer's Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
From Stephen Koch, former chair of Columbia University’s graduate creative writing program, comes essential and practical advice drawn from The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop.
With nearly thirty years of teaching experience, Stephen Koch has earned a reputation as an astute and benevolent...
by Victor Hugo
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The story and characters in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame have resonated with succeeding generations since its publication in 1831. It has tempted filmmakers, and most recently animators, who have exploited its dramatic content to good effect but have inevitably lost some of the grays...
The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle
Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Like no other event in our history, the Civil War divided the nation, redrew our notions of freedom and citizenship, and provided the backdrop for some of the most enduring works in the American literary canon. This Modern Library eBook bundle collects five titles that illuminate that transformative...
by Edward Gibbon
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This Modern Library eBook edition collects all three volumes of Edward Gibbon’s towering masterpiece of classical history The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire—complete and unabridged.
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Edward Gibbon’s magnum opus narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D....
Ethics
The Essential Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
In Ethics: The Essential Writings,** philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years of thought—from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter...
The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Revisit a world of conquest, exploration, and imperial adventure with this Modern Library eBook bundle that includes Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Francis Parkman’s Montcalm and Wolfe, William H. Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico, and Theodore Roosevelt’s...
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I
A.D. 180 to A.D. 395 (A Modern Library E-Book)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
'It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind,' recorded Edward Gibbon with characteristic exactitude....
by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller
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This Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives—crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other.
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published...
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
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
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...
The Raven and the Monkey's Paw
Classics of Horror and Suspense from the Modern Library
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
The third in the Modern Library's series of original compilations, The Raven and the Monkey's Paw is a collection of classic tales and poems to engage our fear-seeking senses. The beauty of these stories and poems lies in their readability: ideal for sharing aloud around the campfire or for a quick,...
by Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The enduring genius of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky shines through in this special eBook collection that includes four classic Russian novels—each one recognized as a masterpiece of world literature.
ANNA KARENINA
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“One of the greatest love stories in world literature.”—Vladimir...