Modern Library imprint: 414 books
The American Revolution
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2002
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred...
By the Sword
A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
**“Like swordplay itself, By the Sword is elegant, accurate, romantic, and full of brio—the definitive study, hugely readable, of man’s most deadly art.”—Simon Winchester
With a new Preface by the author**
Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President...
Passionate Nomad
The Life of Freya Stark
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
**A New York Times Notable Book • Finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
“Highly readable biography . . . The woman who emerges from these pages is a complex figure—heroic, driven . . . and entirely human.”—Richard Bernstein, The New York Times**
Passionate...
London
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In its two thousand years of history, London has ruled a rainy island and a globe-spanning empire, it has endured plague and fire and bombing, it has nurtured and destroyed poets and kings, revolutionaries and financiers, geniuses and visionaries of every stripe. To distill the magic and the majesty...
by Jules Verne
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2003
The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth’s very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet’s primordial secrets, the geologist—together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted...
A Princess of Mars
A Barsoom Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Virginia gentleman John Carter, unexpectedly transported to the perilous red planet, Mars, finds himself captured by the loveless Green Men of Thark. As Carter struggles to win his freedom—and the affections of fellow captive Dejah Thoris, princess of the rival clan of Helium—the fate of the entire...
The Fun of It
Stories from The Talk of the Town
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is today: a precise piece of journalism that...
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
First published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into a violent contest: the duel. When Laevsky, a lazy youth who works for the government, tires of his...
At the Hands of Persons Unknown
The Lynching of Black America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • “A landmark work of unflinching scholarship.”—The New York Times
This extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed civil rights historian Philip Dray, shines a clear, bright light on American history’s...
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Describes a band of frustrated revolutionary exiles in Geneva. This book is a study of individuals under pressure, and it remains a telling account of the fugitive life - especially in its portrait of Razumov, heir to the long line of Russian anti-heroes in Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Turgenev.
In...
The Book That Changed My Life
Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Every reader can name at least one book that changed his or her life—and many more beloved titles will surely come to mind as well. In The Book That Changed My Life, fifteen of America’s most influential authors discuss their own special literary choices. These unique interviews with National...
The Broken Estate
Essays on Literature and Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov,...
A Night at the Opera
An Irreverent Guide to The Plots, The Singers, The Composers, The Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
“Delightful and anti-reverential”—Sunday Times (London)
With an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and a delightful dash of irreverence, Sir Denis Forman throws open the world of opera—its structure, composers, conductors, and artists—in this hugely informative guide. A Night at the...
The First Americans
In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?
At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow...