Lolita
1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov
A House for Mr. Biswas
1961 novel by V. S. Naipaul, significant as Naipaul’s first work to achieve acclaim worldwide
The Bookshop Novels: Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Bookshop
Parnassus on Wheels (1917) is Morley’s first novel, about a fictional traveling book-selling business. The original owner of the business, Roger Mifflin, sells it to 39-year-old Helen McGill, who is tired of taking care of her older brother, Andrew. Andrew is a former businessman turned farmer, turned author. As an author, he begins using the …
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The Pursuit of Love
Novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1945. It is the first in a trilogy about an upper-class English family in the interwar period focusing on the romantic life of Linda Radlett, as narrated by her cousin, Fanny Logan
The Man Without Qualities
Unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the Austrian writer Robert Musil
Selected Stories, 1968-1994
Collection of short stories by Alice Munro, published in 1996
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Novel published in 19941995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Autobiographical memoir by writer Vladimir Nabokov
Paradise Lost
Epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton . The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse