The Modern Library classics

A novel of Regency England that centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.

Tells the stories of Cortes' subjugation of the Aztecs in Mexico and Pizzaro's subjugation of the Incas in Peru.

An annotated edition of "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.," which contains more than thirty essays, sketches, and tales by nineteenth-century American writer Washington Irving, including "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.".

Presents the full text of nineteenth-century American writer Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"; selections from "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," "Cape Cod," and "The Maine Woods"; and five significant essays by Thoreau.

Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a self-indulgent Victorian clergyman, sheds his religious faith as a young man, and begins to study art in Paris, but finally returns to London to qualify as a doctor.

A young woman finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England.

Esther, the illegitimate child of Lady Dedlock and Captain Hawdon, is the ward of Mr. Jarndyce and lives with him at Bleak House.

Presents "The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, " the original twenty-four stories that made Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional sleuth famous.

Presents an English translation of thirteenth-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo's account of his travels throughout China, India, Persia, and other places.