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  • Although the Modern Library's "200 Best Novels," edited by Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil, was published in 1999, and I'm always interested in "best of" book lists, I had never run across it until I received this question.

    'Best of' Lists Cynthia Crossen 2011

  • Despite the fawning of celebrities, seeing "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" inducted into the Modern Library and collecting paychecks for slurry, drug-'n'-booze-addled speaking gigs on college campuses, Thompson was lost for much of his last quarter-century.

    Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride Matt Labash 2011

  • "Competing against free is certainly a challenge, but we're sure that some people will pay for introductions by the best authors and scholars, added material or better formatting and cleaner texts," says Tom Perry, publisher of the Modern Library, a Random House Inc. imprint.

    Oprah Book Club Pick Off To Slow Start AP 2010

  • First, it's listed as a first edition -- which it is, but of the Modern Library reprinting.

    Salinger-Signed 'The Catcher in the Rye' Up For Auction: It Might Be Fake 2010

  • First, it's listed as a first edition -- which it is, but of the Modern Library reprinting.

    Salinger-Signed 'The Catcher in the Rye' Up For Auction: It Might Be Fake 2010

  • "Competing against free is certainly a challenge, but we're sure that some people will pay for introductions by the best authors and scholars, added material or better formatting and cleaner texts," says Tom Perry, publisher of the Modern Library, a Random House Inc. imprint.

    Oprah Book Club Pick Off To Slow Start AP 2010

  • He walked to the Strand, the secondhand bookstore on Broadway and Twelfth, glad, as always, to see the familiar spines of the Modern Library editions of literary classics.

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

  • He walked to the Strand, the secondhand bookstore on Broadway and Twelfth, glad, as always, to see the familiar spines of the Modern Library editions of literary classics.

    A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009

  • Wyatt Mason translated the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud for the Modern Library.

    N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

  • Ms. Schneider said that John Flicker, who has been editing non-fiction at Bantam and running its classics line, is moving over to Modern Library as a senior editor and will report to Ms. Kamil.

    Sternlight, Tracy, Streitfeld, Scheier All Out at Random House as Flagship Division Reorganizes 2009

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