Modern Library Classics
Featuring treasured classics, volumes of essential writings, major translations of great works from around the globe, and rediscoveries of literary and historical merit, the Modern Library was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later was acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House.
Now perhaps best known for its “100 Best” lists of novels and nonfiction of the twentieth century, the Modern Library’s distinctive, affordable, and highly-collected editions have played a significant role in American cultural life for decades.
Modern Library Classics
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Emma
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf
The Southern Woman
Elizabeth Spencer
The Squatter and the Don
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie, F.D. Bedford
The Dark Interval
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Greek Plays
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
The Ambassadors
Henry James
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery, Laura Fernandez, Rick Jacobson
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
The Essential Writings of Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Essential Prose of John Milton
John Milton
Washington Square
Henry James