The Belly of Paris

Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-8129-7422-5 (0-8129-7422-0)

May 12, 2009 | $19.00



Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and...

The Dark Side

Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Anchor | History - United States - 21St Century; Political Science - Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism
978-0-307-45629-8 (0-307-45629-3)

May 5, 2009 | $18.95



One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

National Bestseller
With a New Afterword

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-Dealer

The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the...

PEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories 2009

Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-28035-0 (0-307-28035-7)

May 5, 2009 | $17.50



A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 features unforgettable tales in settings as diverse as post-war Vietnam, a luxurious seaside development in Cape Town, an Egyptian desert village, and a permanently darkened...

Antony and Cleopatra

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Modern Library | Drama - Shakespeare
978-0-8129-6918-4 (0-8129-6918-9)

April 14, 2009 | $6.99



Written at the pinnacle of Shakespeare’s career and featuring his most soaring poetic idiom, Antony and Cleopatra is both an immortal love story and a political drama played out on a global scale.

Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern...

King Lear

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Modern Library | Drama - Shakespeare
978-0-8129-6911-5 (0-8129-6911-1)

April 14, 2009 | $6.99



King Lear is Shakespeare’s bleakest and profoundest tragedy, a searing dramatization of humankind at the edge of apocalypse that explores the family and the nature of being with passion, poetry, and dark humor.

Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern...

Macbeth

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Modern Library | Drama - Shakespeare
978-0-8129-6916-0 (0-8129-6916-2)

April 14, 2009 | $6.99



One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, filled with fierce, violent action, Macbeth is a human drama of ambition, desire, and guilt in a world of blood and darkness, with whispers of the supernatural.

Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern...

The Winter's Tale

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Modern Library | Drama - Shakespeare
978-0-8129-6919-1 (0-8129-6919-7)

April 14, 2009 | $6.99



One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter’s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive world of nature, and the magical power of art.

Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean...

Jane Eyre

Trade Paperback | 624 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-45519-2 (0-307-45519-X)

April 7, 2009 | $9.95



Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester.

The loneliness and cruelty of Jane's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after...

Wuthering Heights

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-45518-5 (0-307-45518-1)

April 7, 2009 | $9.95



Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of the troubled orphan Heathcliff and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw.

Published in 1847, the year before Emily Bronte's death at the age of thirty, Wuthering Heights has proved to be one of the nineteenth century's...

Karnak Café

Trade Paperback | 112 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-39045-5 (0-307-39045-4)

December 2, 2008 | $16.00



In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and betrayal.

At a Cairo café in the 1960s, a legendary former belly dancer lovingly presides over a boisterous family of regulars...

War and Peace

Trade Paperback | 1296 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-1-4000-7998-8 (1-4000-7998-5)

December 2, 2008 | $22.95



From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.

War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is...

The Canterbury Tales

Hardcover | 672 pages | Modern Library | Poetry - Single Author - British & Irish; Poetry - Ancient, Classical & Medieval
978-0-679-64355-5 (0-679-64355-9)

November 18, 2008 | $40.00



It would be impossible to overstate the influence of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. A work with one metaphorical foot planted in the Florentine Renaissance literary tradition of Boccaccio’s Decameron and the other in works ranging from John Bunyan, Voltaire, and Mark Twain to the popular entertainments of our own time...

The Long Embrace

Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-1-4000-9517-9 (1-4000-9517-4)

November 11, 2008 | $16.95



Raymond Chandler was among the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle of who Chandler was and how he...

Being Shelley

Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-28052-7 (0-307-28052-7)

November 4, 2008 | $20.00



From Ann Wroe, a biographer of the first rank, comes a startlingly original look at one of the greatest poets in the Western tradition.

Being Shelley aims to turn the poet's life inside out: rather than tracing the external events of his life, she tracks the inner journey of a spirit...

Paradiso

Trade Paperback | 1024 pages | Anchor | Poetry - Single Author - Continental European; Fiction - Classics
978-1-4000-3115-3 (1-4000-3115-X)

September 9, 2008 | $23.95



With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine.

Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar...