The Modern Library classics

Contains Chaucer's tragic love story set during the siege of Troy between Troilus, a valiant warrior and Cressida, who at first spurns Troilus' affections but is later won over; however their happiness is destroyed when Cressida is summoned to a Greek camp and eventually betrays Troilus.

Mark Twain's classic story about the adventures of a young boy, Tom Sawyer, growing up along the Mississippi River during the mid-1800s.

Young Prince Edward and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks just like the royal youth, both learn something about "pleasures and palaces" when they accidentally switch places in sixteenth-century England. Includes an introduction by Christopher Paul Curtis, and a reading group guide.

Alvina Houghton is coming of age just as her widowed father's business is failing. Desperate to regain his fortune and secure his daughter's future, Alvina's father buys a theater. But when Alvina finds herself drawn to Ciccio, a traveling performer her father hired, she flees with him to Naples, leaving her safe world behind.

The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.

Gabriel Oak, in love with the beautiful heiress Bathsheba Everdene, waits patiently while she works her way through the hearts of local men.

Presents Upton Sinclair's classic 1906 novel about the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young struggling immigrant, and includes a profile of the author, introduction, and textual notes.

Portrays the struggle between a southern gentleman and a Boston feminist to control and possess the affections of young Verena Tarrant.

Presents H. G. Wells's classic story in which Earth is invaded by hostile, technologically superior aliens from Mars; and includes discussion questions, two contemporary reviews of the book, and an introduction by Arthur C. Clarke.

A reprint of Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen's 1929 novel in which Irene, an African-American woman with a comfortable life, is disturbed by the return of a childhood friend, Clare, who has passed for white since adolescence and now wants to rejoin the African-American community.