Modern Library classics

A party from England--two professors, a nobleman, and a journalist--set out to explore a plateau in South America where prehistoric animals and ancestral hominids are very much alive. Includes explanatory notes and an introduction by novelist Michael Crichton.

Presents George Eliot's 1862 novel about Romola, a woman who, having grown up subservient to her scholar-father, and endured an unhappy marriage, has a passionate intellectual and spiritual awakening in Renaissance Florence.

A collection of three Christmas classics by Charles Dickens including "The Chimes," "The Haunted Man," and the title story "A Christmas Carol.".

A mysterious drifter named Axel Heyst rescues a troubled girl from a seedy tropical hotel and takes her home to Samburan, his own island in the East Indies, unaware they are being followed by three intruders who will bring horror, death, and a strange, haunting victory.

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

The story of three generations of a Nottingham family whose love affairs move backward and forward across the years.

The story of Constance, the wife of a crippled English aristocrat who runs away with her gamekeeper.

An account of life on the Mississippi in the old steamboat days and Twain's experiences as a pilot.

Empress Catherine II recounts the major events of her life and offers an eyewitness account of daily life in eighteenth-century Russia.

French swindler and scoundrel Augustus Melmotte arrives in London determined to secure a marriage for his daughter that will raise their station in society, and settles on Felix, the adored son of Lady Carbury, who is induced to propose for the sake of securing a fortune.