Herstein’s Topics in Algebra is one of the well known abstract algebra text. It is super-clear in its writing style with its theorems introduced with enthusiastic motivations. Not too wordy, but not too compact that it misses important details. Although it is not an easy read, but any undergraduates drilling in math(or even beginning-graduates) will definitely benefit himself/herself by learning from this book. I bet that most of the modern-day abstract algebra books, ones like Fraleigh’s “First Course in Abstract Algebra” and Dummit & Foote’s “Abstract Algebra”, must have been influenced by this Herstein’s masterpiece.