Gulliver’s Travels
Three hundred years on, Gulliver's Travels still refuses to behave. It gets shelved as a children's classic, taught as the great English…
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Don Quixote
Four hundred years on, the mad knight of La Mancha still refuses to stay down. Don Quixote is routinely labelled the first modern novel and one of…
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence arrives with a whisper rather than a shout, and yet it shakes something loose - a quiet, accumulating ache that lingers long…
The Old Man and the Sea
Few books carry the weight of their own reputation as visibly as The Old Man and the Sea. It won the Pulitzer, secured the Nobel, and rescued…
The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, a Sicilian prince with no literary reputation and no connections to any literary movement, wrote his only novel in…
Pedro Paramo
Comala announces itself before you reach it. "Vine a Comala porque me dijeron que acá vivía mi padre, un tal Pedro Páramo" - an…
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene resisted the label of Catholic novelist all his life, which is faintly comic given that he wrote the most Catholic novel of the…
Gilead
On paper, Gilead should not work. A dying Congregationalist minister in a small Iowa town writes a long letter to his seven-year-old son,…
Excellent Women
Mildred Lathbury is thirty, unmarried, a clergyman's daughter who works mornings at a charity for impoverished gentlewomen and spends the rest…
Neuromancer
Forty years on, Neuromancer arrives with so much accumulated reputation that the actual experience of reading it can feel almost beside the point.…
The Shining
Nearly fifty years after its publication, The Shining arrives weighed down by a reputation that almost works against it. It has been absorbed so…
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
By 2021, the world Philip K. Dick imagined is a ruined one: most species extinct, the survivors clinging to off-world emigration or to a planet…
