Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death,here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary worksof world literature. Tolstoy's epic masterpiece captures withunprecedented immediacy the broad sweep of life during theNapoleonic wars and the brutal invasion of Russia. Balls andsoirées, the burning of Moscow, the intrigues of statesmen andgenerals, scenes of violent battles, the quiet moments of everydaylife--all in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has neverbeen surpassed. The Maudes' translation of Tolstoy's epicmasterpiece has long been considered the best English version, andnow for the first time it has been revised to bring it fully intoline with modern approaches to the text. French passages arerestored, Anglicization of Russian names removed, and outmodedexpressions updated. A new introduction by Amy Mandelker considersthe novel's literary and historical context, the nature of thework, and Tolstoy's artistic and philosophical aims. New, expandednotes provid

EXCITEMENT AND SUSPENSE FROM THE HEART OF THE JUNGLE Archaeologist Leo Mallory is on a dig. But this is no ordinary assignment. He’s deep in the heart of the Mexican jungle uncovering another centuries-old Mayan city. Like a surgeon performing a most-intricate operation, Leo and his team skilfully remove each crumb of earth with the utmost precision. THE JAGUAR MASK In France, Declan Carberry is busy trying to solve a string of ritual serial murders. Horrific in the extreme, the questions are who and why? Declan needs to move fast, for time is running out. Delving into the history of the Conquistadors and the Maya of South America, this vertiginous tale of snaring and netting, old rituals and modern codes, blood-letting and immortality is Easterman at his dizzying best. “A master of spooky suspense and of the chapter cliffhanger”THE SCOTSMAN 'The Jaguar Mask' will satisfy anyone who appreciates an old-fashioned well plotted adventure thriller which has been given a hard moder

A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories fromWashington Irving to John Updike. The Classic StoriesEdgar AllanPoe's "Ms. Found in a Bottle," Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of PokerFlat," Sherwood Anderson's "Death in the Woods," Stephen VincentBenet's "By the Waters of Babylon" The Great WritersMelville,James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers TheLittle-Known MasterpiecesEdith Wharton's "The Dilettante," FinleyPeter Dunne's "Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman," Charles M.Flandrau's "A Dead Issue," James Reid Parker's "The Archimandrite'sNiece"

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When Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the greatest science fiction writerever, teams up with award-winning author Stephen Baxter, who sharesClarke's bold vision of a future where technology and humanismadvance hand in hand, the result is bound to be a book of stellarambition and accomplishment. Such was the case with Time's Eye.Now, in the highly anticipated sequel, Clarke and Baxter draw theirepic to a triumphant conclusion that is as mind-blowing as anythingin Clarke's famous Space Odyssey series. SUNSTORM Returned to theEarth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almostlimitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by thememories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earthcalled Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cutout of different eras of Earth's history. Why did the Firstborncreate Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back on theday after her original disappearance? Bisesa's questions receive achilling answer when scientists discover an anomaly in

在线阅读本书 This moving and eloquent historical drama depicts the conflictbetween a willful and arrogant poet of a king, Richard II, and hispolitically pragmatic cousin, Bolingbroke. Rich with memorablescenes and speeches, this lyrical history moves from a splendidmedieval tournament to the poignant surrender of a crown; from thequeen’s heart-shattering farewell to her king to Richard’s murder—adeed “chronicled in hell” that lives forever as one of the greatmoments in theater.

Includes The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of MarieRogêt, and The Purloined Letter Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre ofdetective fiction with three mesmerizing stories of a young Frencheccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature theconcept of applying reason to solving crime, these tales broughtPoe fame and fortune to live on. Years later, Dorothy Sayers woulddescribe “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” as “almost a completemanual of detective theory and practice.” Indeed, Poe’s shortmysteries inspired the creation of countless literary sleuths,among them Sherlock Holmes. Today, the Dupin stories still standout as unique, utterly engrossing page-turners. This Modern Library edition reproduces the definitive texts ofthe three tales. It includes an enlightening Introduction bynovelist Matthew Pearl and an Appendix, “The EarliestDetectives.”