Virginia Woolf Rachel Vinrace is twenty-four. She has been sheltered with love, but is now ready to discover 'life', to take the voyage out.Moving away from Richmond means a real...

Alison Lurie Originally published in 1974, a humorous novel set against an American academic background, telling of how a professor's stable relationship and family life comes apart when he embarks...

Anthony Trollope'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ...that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive...

Christopher Paul CurtisThe Newbery Honor-winning American classic, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 , celebrates 20 years with this anniversary edition featuring a special letter from Christopher Paul Curtis and an...

Morton Rhue The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.The powerful forces of group pressure that...

Virginia WoolfSet on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a...

John Fairfax and John MoatIn 1969 the poet John Fairfax and poet and novelist John Moat dreamt up the Arvon Foundation, a venture born out of their frustration that nowhere...

Roald DahlThe son of Norwegian parents, Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916 and educated at Repton. He was a fighter pilot for the RAF during World War Two,...

Anthony TrollopeTrollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and his daughter's ill-use at the hands of a grasping lover is a classic in the...

Dorothy West In her last novel, Dorothy West, an iconic member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers an intimate glimpse into African American middle class.  Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in...

Joan DidionFirst published in 1979, The White Album is a mosaic of the late sixties and seventies. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses...

William FaulknerIn this feverishly beautiful novel— subsequently titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem and now published in the authoritative Library of America text—William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing...