Remembrance of Things Past
To approach Proust through Scott Moncrieff is to encounter two artists at once, and to spend the duration of these volumes unsure which of them one…
Retailers that deliver to: USThe Goldfinch
Eleven years is a long time to keep readers waiting, and longer still to keep them arguing. The remarkable thing about Donna Tartt's third…
The Crimson Petal and the White
Sugar is the kind of character who arrives fully formed and refuses to leave. A nineteen-year-old prostitute in 1870s London, famous in her trade…
The Stand
King wanted to write his generation's Lord of the Rings, and he very nearly pulled it off. It is a sprawling American myth dressed in the…
War and Peace
For more than a century, War and Peace has functioned as cultural shorthand for the impossibly long, the dutifully unread, the thing one always…
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain set out to write a boy's adventure and ended up producing the book that most American novelists since have had to write their way…
Great Expectations
Pip's voice reaches us from the cold edge of a churchyard, a small boy frightened by a convict on the marshes, and somehow that opening…
The Mill on the Floss
Seven hundred pages of the most psychologically meticulous realism in Victorian fiction, and then a flood arrives and drowns the two characters…
Blood Meridian
Judge Holden carries a ledger into the desert and records birds, artifacts, and rock art before destroying the originals, so that nothing exists…
Pale Fire
Kinbote is the villain as reader: a man who steals a dead poet's manuscript and buries it under commentary, annexing another man's art to…
Lolita
Humbert Humbert is a scholar of French literature, and the novel's horror runs through his allusions - Poe's child bride, Merimee's…
Nineteen Eighty-Four
O'Brien is the rare villain who hands the hero a book - Goldstein's The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism - and the trap…
