The Bostonians (1886) was not welcomed by James's fellow countrymen, who failed to appreciate its delicacy and wit; but a century later, this book is widely regarded as James's finest American fiction, and perhaps his comic masterpiece.
Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize with The Grapes of Wrath as well as being awarded the 1940 Nobel Prize for Literature as a mark of his outstanding contribution to literature.
When his mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths patterned on the book of Revelation, Brother William turns detective, following the trail of a conspiracy that brings him face-to-face with the abbey’s labyrinthine secrets, the ...
The greatest English comic novelist of the twentieth century produced a considerable body of shorter fiction, characteristically brilliant and with savage wit.
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, this collection includes seven books in one volume: the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; ...