Kingsley Amis Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers back...

G Ernest Wright January 1, 1960 by Westminster Press

Samuel Richardson  

Leon Uris   In Queen’s Bench Courtroom Number Seven, famous author Abraham Cady stands trial. In his book The Holocaust—born of the terrible revelation that the Jadwiga Concentration Camp was...

Mark Twain Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain's story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi...

Voltaire Robert M. Adams’s superlative revised translation of Candide provides the basis for this widely adopted Norton Critical Edition. The accompanying apparatus has been revised in accordance with recent biographical...

Penelope Mortimer "The Pumpkin Eater "is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch...

Robert Ludlum March 28, 1983 by Bantam Books

Simmel A shattering novel of intrigue and terror. From the golden sunshine of Hollywood, where a man is given the most desperate and dangerous assignment of his life. To the...

Honoré de BalzacPère Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is...

Chosen by Vernon Scannell  1987, British hardcover edition, Oxford University Press, London, UK. 354 pages. A beautifully printed, superb volume, written by British writers, who hunting / fishing / horse...

Gustave Flaubert Frederic Moreau, a provincial young man who dreams of wealth and fame, falls in love with Madame Arnoux and cultivates a friendship with her husband in order to...