novels each week we post a new quotation from one of literature s great books . reading guides is your book group reading a modern library title click here to view our online reading group guides . shakespeare games now you can try your hand at four interactive and fun shakespeare games created specially to help you apply your knowledge of the bard and his plays . new releases the korean war a bracing account of a war that is either misunderstood forgotten or willfully ignored . read more comments 0 more rss learn more excerpt add to bookshelf goodreads shelfari librarything buy the book amazon barnes & noble borders indiebound powell s random house other the merry wives of windsor eminent shakespearean scholars jonathan bate and eric rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love laughter and merriment along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features . read more comments 0 more rss learn more excerpt add to bookshelf goodreads shelfari librarything buy the book amazon barnes & noble borders indiebound powell s random house other the only game in town for more than eighty years the new yorker has been home to some of the toughest wisest funniest and most moving sportswriting around . the only game in town is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench including such authors as roger angell john updike don delillo and john mcphee . read more comments 0 more rss learn more excerpt add to bookshelf goodreads shelfari librarything buy the book amazon barnes & noble borders indiebound powell s random house other 3 days before the shooting at his death in 1994 ralph ellison left behind several thousand pages of his unfinished second novel which he had spent nearly four decades writing . five years later random house published juneteenth drawn from the central narrative of ellison s epic work in progress . three days before the shooting ... gathers in one volume all the parts of that planned opus including three major sequences never before published . read more comments 0 more rss learn more excerpt add to bookshelf goodreads shelfari librarything buy the book amazon barnes & noble borders indiebound powell s random house other julius caesar eminent shakespearean scholars jonathan bate and eric rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this masterpiece of political power play and manipulation along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features . read more comments 0 more rss learn more excerpt add to bookshelf goodreads shelfari librarything buy the book amazon barnes & noble borders indiebound powell s random house other dusk and other stories first published nearly a quarter century ago and one of the very few short story collections to win the pen faulkner award this is american fiction at its most vital each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literary grace . read more comments 0 more rss learn more excerpt add to bookshelf goodreads shelfari librarything buy the book amazon barnes & noble borders indiebound powell s random house other the feminist promise in this definitive volume respected historian christine stansell tells the story of one of the great democratic movements of our times . read more comments 0 more rss learn more excerpt add to bookshelf goodreads shelfari librarything buy the book amazon barnes & noble borders indiebound powell s random house other hearts touched by fire in july 1883 just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the battle of gettysburg a group of editors at the century magazine engaged in a lively argument which civil war battle was the bloodiest battle of them all read more comments 0 more rss learn more excerpt add to bookshelf goodreads shelfari librarything buy the book amazon barnes & noble borders indiebound powell s random house other sign up for our newsletter join our newsletter and receive updates on modern library releases right in your inbox . sign up for updates . search the site search for a title or author our bestsellers the scarlet letternathaniel hawthorne the essential writings of ralph waldo emersonralph waldo emerson anna kareninaleo tolstoy les mis rablesvictor hugo to end a warrichard holbrooke heart of darknessjoseph conrad guadalcanal diaryrichard tregaskis pride and prejudicejane austen hell s angels a strange and terrible sagahunter s. thompson verastacy schiff i will bear witness volume 1victor klemperer moby dickherman melville dutchedmund morris pulitzer prize winning author of the rise of theodore roosevelt black no moregeorge s. schuyler narrative of the life of frederick douglass an american slave & incidents in the life of a slave girlfrederick douglass ; 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