Modern Library college editions

A collection of short stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe.

The members of a genteel Southern family are portrayed as petty failures, drunkards, suicides, pathological perverts, and idiots.

Fifteenth-century Italian stateman Niccolo Machiavelli's famous treatise on the qualities and actions necessary for princes to gain and keep power, in which he holds up ancient Roman rulers as examples and shows why, for leaders of nations, "the ends justify the means.".

Presents the complete and excerpted texts of eight medieval romances, composed by French, German, and English authors, each with an introductory essay.