Classics / Criticism

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violen…

Fyodor Dostoevsky

This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him…

W. G. Sebald

After Nature, W. G. Sebald's first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, …

W. G. Sebald

During World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almos…

Joseph Conrad

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time - Nominated as one of Ameri…

Mary Shelley

Introduction by Wendy Steiner - Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great A…

Jack London

The Call of the Wild--Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time To th…

Samuel Butler

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time The Way of All Flesh is one…

Terry Tempest Williams

"Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic ce…

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive ve…

Royall Tyler

Two hundred and twenty tales from medieval Japan--tales that welcome us into a fabulous faraway worl…

Anne Carson

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Ann…