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The Dupin TalesEdited and with an Introduction by Matthew Pearl Includes ';The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' ';The Mystery of Marie Rogt,' and ';The Purloined Letter' Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C....

(A Modern Library E-Book)Sense and Sensibility is one of the best loved of Jane Austen's novels, populated by great comic creations like Mrs. Jennings, the unscrupulous cad Willoughby, and guileless and artful women. As ever, Austen suffuses her work with great ironic observation and tremendous wit, producing a masterpiece of romantic...

Richard Bausch is a master of the short story--and this selection brings together ten pieces which perfectly showcase his incisive wit, perception, and artistry. He brings to life characters and situations as vivid and compelling as any in contemporary literature.--Michael Dorris, The Washington Post Book World....

(A Modern Library E-Book)Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeThe Secret Agent is the unsurpassed ancestor of a long series of twentieth-century novels and films which explore the confused motives that lieat the heart of political terrorism. In its use of powerful psychological insight to intensify narrative...

2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERPeter Matthiessen's great American epicKilling Mister Watson, Lost Man's River, and Bone by Bonewas conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has cut nearly a third of the overall text and collapsed...

Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the advances it will bring, is stricken with insomnia. Finally resorting to medication, he instantly falls into a deep sleep that lasts two hundred years. Upon waking in the twenty-second century to a strange and nightmarish place, he slowly discovers he is...