Modern Library

Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel...

New York Stories from The New YorkerNew York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage...

On a mild midwestern night in the early 1940s, Johnny Marr leans against a drugstore wall. Hes waiting for Dorothy, his fiance, and tonight is the last night theyll be meeting here, for its May 31st, and June 1st marks their wedding day. But shes late, and Johnny soon learns of a horrible accidentan accident involving a group of drunken men, a...

A Detective StoryWho poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorpe, and how did the murderer penetrate and  escape from her locked bedroom? Sus-pects abound in the quaint village of Styles  St. Maryfrom the heiress's fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile  housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital...

(A Modern Library E-Book)'Washington Square is perhaps the only novel in which a man has successfully invaded the feminine field and produced work comparable to Jane Austen's,' said Graham Greene. Inspired by a story Henry James heard at a dinner party, Washington Square tells how the rakish but idle Morris Townsend tries to win the...

Joyce Carol Oatess Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard...