Modern Library Classics

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. The definitive corrected text, including Faulkner's Appendix One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100...

¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué las estrategias diseñadas hace siglos siguen definiendo el éxito en el mundo moderno? En un entorno cada vez más competitivo, comprender la estrategia y la naturaleza humana es la clave para destacar. El Príncipe & El Arte de la Guerra no son simples obras históricas, sino dos de los tratados más influyentes sobre poder, liderazgo y toma de decisiones.

The star of her school’s running team, Sadako is lively and athletic…until the dizzy spells start. Then she must face the hardest race of her life—the race against time. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the courage that makes one young woman a heroine...

The book that invented modern short fiction. Fifteen stories. One city. A new kind of literature. When James Joyce published Dubliners in 1914, after nine years of fighting with terrified publishers and threatened printers, English-language fiction changed permanently. The stories collected here — written between 1904 and 1907, when Joyce was in his early twenties — created the modern short story as we know it: stripped of plot machinery, oriented toward the epiphany, written in a prose of such restraint and precision that every word seems weighed against silence. There is nothing like ...

Detective stories existed for centuries before the concept of the detective itself—amateur or professional— was fully formulated, and tales of mystery and intrigue have been thrilling readers since ancient times. The Lock and Key Library is the classic overview of the history of the mystery genre, at once a rousing listen for fans of the unsolved and unknown as well as an essential literary resource for those seeking to understand the roots of modern pulp fiction. This volume is sure to delight and enthrall armchair detectives and fans of classic mysteries alike.

Two teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in Dolores Hitchens’s Fools’ Gold (1958)—and get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. The basis for Jean-Luc Godard’s film Band of Outsiders, Fools’ Gold...

From an award-winning author comes a stunning and deeply moving book based on the popular spiritual "Standing in the Need of Prayer." The classic lyrics have been reworked to chronicle the milestones, struggles, tragedies, and triumphs of African American history. This inspirational audiobook...

A collection of short stories from such favorites as Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling are joined by others written anonymously in this anthology which will have you scratching your head and listening just a bit longer to discover the key to the mysteries.

A beautifully designed edition of number-one New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett’s prized classic, annotated and with an introductionby the author herself. 'A book that works both as a paean to art and beauty and a subtly sly comedy of manners' New York Times First published in 2001...

An uncanny novel which provides keen insight on patriarchal violence and female identity by the author of feminist cult classic The Princess of 72nd Street With an introduction by Violet Kupersmith Understand my beginning with Oliver. You will see that my love for him is not a romantic fantasy...

The 1895 novel so violently denounced that Thomas Hardy never wrote fiction again. When Jude the Obscure appeared, the Bishop of Wakefield publicly burned his copy. Reviewers called it Jude the Obscene. Hardy's wife refused to speak of it. By the time the storm subsided, England's greatest living novelist had walked away from the form forever — turning to poetry for the remaining thirty years of his life. This is the book that broke him. And it is, by common acknowledgment of every serious reader since, his masterpiece. Jude Fawley — orphan, stonemason, autodidact — dreams of ...

Bloomsbury presents Apple and Rain written and read by Sarah Crossan. _______________ 'This poignant, realistic tale is about learning to love and taking responsibility, and how poems can tell the truth' – Sunday Times Book of the Week 'A story of the redeeming power of love. It's beautifully...

Bloomsbury presents One by Sarah Crossan, read by Jillian Yetter. _______________ 'Broke my heart and mended it' – Cecilia Ahern 'It will shake up preconceptions and move readers to tears' – Sunday Times Book of the Week 'Truly remarkable' – Irish Times _______________ WINNER OF THE YA...

Bloomsbury presents The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan, read by Izzy Meikle-Small _______________ 'Poignant, powerful, just perfect' - Cathy Cassidy 'This poetic novel is sheer perfection ... I loved it' - Irish Examiner 'A compellingly beautiful, utterly seductive debut novel … Do not miss...