Modern Library

Set during World War I on an isolated country estate just outside London, Rebecca Wests haunting novel The Return of the Soldier follows Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, as he makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will the devoted wife he can no longer recollect, the favorite...

Mosses from an Old Manse is Nathaniel Hawthornes second story collection, first published in 1846 in two volumes and featuring sketches and tales written over a span of more than twenty years, including such classics as Young Goodman Brown, The Birthmark, and Rappaccinis Daughter. Herman Melville deemed Hawthorne the American Shakespeare, and Henry...

Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction Head and Shoulders Bernice Bobs Her Hair The Ice Palace The Offshore Pirate May Day The Jelly Bean The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Winter Dreams AbsolutionIn the euphoric months before and after the publication of This...

A NovelHere is a rich and lyrical masterpiecenotes Peter Constantinethe first translation of a lost treasure by acclaimed author H. G. Adler, a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Written in 1950, after Adlers emigration to England, The Journey was ignored by large publishing houses after the war and not released in Germany until 1962....

In this lively, learned, and wholly engrossing volume, F. Gonzlez-Crussi presents a brief yet authoritative five-hundred-year history of the science, the philosophy, and the controversies of modern medicine. While this illuminating work mainly explores Western medicine over the past five centuries, Gonzlez-Crussi also describes how modern medicines...

These two classic novels featuring private eye Philip Marlowe made Raymond Chandler's name synonymous with America's hard-boiled school of crime fiction.The Big Sleep was an instant success when first published in 1939.It centers around a paralyzed California millionaire with two psychopathic daughters; he involves Marlowe in a case of...