The Trial
Few novels begin with a sentence as quietly devastating as this one: Josef K is arrested one morning without having done anything wrong, presumably…
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Few books in the American canon inspire such violently mixed feelings as Walden, and I confess to holding most of them simultaneously.…
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Few books suffer the curse of their own success quite like this one. "Jekyll and Hyde" entered the language so completely that the phrase…
Frankenstein
The myth of Frankenstein in popular culture has so completely disfigured Shelley's deeply human story that anyone whose knowledge comes from…
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…
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,…
