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The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers · 2004
I Capture the Castle: Deluxe Edition
Dodie Smith · 2017
A Game Of Hide And Seek
Elizabeth Taylor · 2011
'elizabeth Taylor Is Finally Being Recognised As An Important British Author: An Author Of Great Subtlety, Great Compassion And Great Depth. As A Reader, I Have Found Huge Pleasure In Returning To Taylor's Novels And Short Stories Many Times Over. As A Writer I've Returned To Her Too - In Awe Of Her Achievements, And Trying To Work Out How She Does It' Sarah Waters An Intelligent, Haunting Love Story, With Echoes Of Brief Encounter, By One Of The Best British Writers Of The 20th Century. During Summer Games Of Hide And Seek Harriet Falls In Love With Vesey And His Elusive, Teasing Ways. When He Goes To Oxford She Cherishes His Photograph And Waits For The Letter That Never Comes. Years Pass, And Harriet Stifles Her Imaginings; With A Husband And Daughter, She Excels At Respectability. But Then Vesey Reappears And Her Marriage Seems To Melt Away. Harriet Is Older, It Is Much Too Late, But She Is Still In Love With Him.
The Lost Daughter
Elena Ferrante · 2008
Now a major motion picture directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Paul Mescal, and Peter Sarsgaard Another penetrating Neapolitan story from New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults. Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years after her two adult daughters leave home to live with their father in Toronto. Enjoying an unexpected sense of liberty, she heads to the Ionian coast for a vacation. But she soon finds herself intrigued by Nina, a young mother on the beach, eventually striking up a conversation with her. After Nina confides a dark secret, one seemingly trivial occurrence leads to events that could destroy Nina’s family in this “arresting” novel by the author of the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan Novels, which have sold millions of copies and been adapted into an HBO series (Publishers Weekly). “Although much of the drama takes place in [Leda’s] head, Ferrante’s gift for psychological horror renders it immediate and visceral.” —The New Yorker “Ferrante’s prose is stunningly candid, direct and unforgettable. From simple elements, she builds a powerful tale of hope and regret.” —Publishers Weekly
The Invention of Morel
Adolfo Bioy Casares · 2016
The Invention of Morel<br/>The Invention of Morel<br/>Adolfo Bioy Casares<br/>La invención de Morel — translated as The Invention of Morel or Morel's Invention — is a novel by Adolfo Bioy Casares. It was Bioy Casares' breakthrough effort, for which he won the 1941 First Municipal Prize for Literature of the City of Buenos Aires. He considered it the true beginning of his literary career, despite being his seventh book. The first edition cover artist was Norah Borges, sister of Bioy Casares' lifelong friend, Jorge Luis Borges.<br/>Adolfo Bioy Casares (September 15, 1914 – March 8, 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges, and wrote what many consider one of the best pieces of fantastic fiction, the novella The Invention of Morel.<br/>Author's page on Wikipedia
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels Book 3)
Elena Ferrante · 2014
<b>Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by "one of the great novelists of our time" ( <i>The New York Times</i>).</b> <br> <br> In the third book in the <i>New York Times</i>–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series <i>My Brilliant Friend</i>, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up for women during the 1970s. And yet, they are still very much bound to each other in a book that "shows off Ferrante's strong storytelling ability and will leave readers eager for the final volume of the series" ( <i>Library Journal</i>). <br> <br> "One of modern fiction's richest portraits of a friendship." —NPR
Agostino
Alberto Moravia · 2014
Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. Though repelled by their squalor and brutality, and repeatedly humiliated for his weakness and ignorance when it comes to women and sex, the boy is increasingly, masochistically drawn to the gang and its rough games. He finds himself unable to make sense of his troubled feelings. Hoping to be full of manly calm, he is instead beset by guilty curiosity and an urgent desire to sever, at any cost, the thread of troubled sensuality that binds him to his mother. Alberto Moravia’s classic, startling portrait of innocence lost was written in 1942 but rejected by Fascist censors and not published until 1944, when it became a best seller and secured the author the first literary prize of his career. Revived here in a new translation by Michael F. Moore, Agostino is poised to captivate a twenty-first-century audience.
The Go-Between (New York Review Books Classics)
L.P. Hartley · 2011
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley’s finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend’s beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in her illicit love affair, the aftershocks will be felt for years. The inspiration for the brilliant Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates, The Go-Between is a masterpiece—a richly layered, spellbinding story about past and present, naïveté and knowledge, and the mysteries of the human heart. This volume includes, for the first time ever in North America, Hartley’s own introduction to the novel.
The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (Penguin Classics)
Henri Alain-Fournier · 2007
<p><b>'I read it for the first time when I was seventeen and loved every page. I find its depiction of a golden time and place just as poignant now as I did then' Nick Hornby<br></b><b><br><i>The Lost Estate </i>is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, <i>Le Grand Meaulnes</i>.</b><br><br>When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house - and his love for the beautiful girl hidden within it, Yvonne de Galais - his life has been changed forever. In his restless search for his Lost Estate and the happiness he found there, Meaulnes, observed by his loyal friend Francois, may risk losing everything he ever had. Poised between youthful admiration and adult resignation, Alain-Fournier's compelling narrator carries the reader through this evocative and unbearably poignant portrayal of desperate friendship and vanished adolescence. <br><br>Robin Buss's translation of <i>Le Grand Meaulnes</i> sensitively and accurately renders Alain-Fournier's poetically charged, expressive and deceptively simple style. In his introduction, <i>New Yorker </i>writer Adam Gopnik discusses the life of Alain-Fournier, who was killed in the First World War after writing this, his only novel.<br><br>If you liked <i>Le Grand Meaulnes</i>, you might enjoy Gustave Flaubert's <i>Sentimental Education</i>, also available in Penguin Classics.</p>
A Room With A View
E.M. Forster · 2020
A Room with a View, written by E.M. Forster and originally published in 1908, tells the story of Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman on holiday in Italy with her cousin Charlotte Bartlett. Lucy finds herself torn between the conventions of her upbringing and the passionate desires of her heart, as she discovers a new way of looking at the world. A Room with a View captures the beauty of Florence and the Italian countryside, as well as the humor and irony of Victorian England. With its charming characters and vivid settings, this classic novel is a timeless exploration of love, freedom, and self-discovery.<br/><br/>E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster) is a beloved English novelist and essayist, best known for his works of fiction such as A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India. Born in London in 1879, Forster was educated at Tonbridge School and King’s College, Cambridge, where he studied history and developed a passion for literature. After graduating in 1901, Forster moved to Italy and worked as a private secretary to an English aristocrat, Lady Olivia Wilmot. Throughout his career, Forster wrote six novels, two collections of short stories, and several essays. His first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, was published in 1905 and was followed by A Room with a View in 1908 and Howards End in 1910. A Passage to India, Forster’s most famous novel, was published in 1924 and was soon adapted into a successful film. Forster’s works are known for their vivid and detailed descriptions of English society during the Edwardian era and for their exploration of issues such as class, gender, and race. In addition to his literary career, Forster was an active member of the Bloomsbury group, a group of writers, artists, and intellectuals who met regularly during the early 20th century. Forster was also an active political and social campaigner and was a strong advocate of homosexual rights. He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1969 and died in 1970. He is remembered as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century and his works remain popular to this day.
One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) (Modern Classics)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 2006
<p><strong>A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick</strong></p><br/><p>"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race....Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life."<br> —<strong>William Kennedy, </strong><strong>New York Times Book</strong><strong> Review </strong></p><br/><p>“More lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry than is expected from 100 years of novelists, let alone one man.”<br><strong>—</strong><strong>Washington Post</strong></p><br/><p>One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.</p> <p>One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendiá family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad and alive with unforgettable men and women—brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul—this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.</p>
Summer: The 1927 Edith Wharton Classic (Annotated)
Edith Wharton · 2023
Butchers Crossing
John Williams · 2014
Butchers Crossing
A Month in the Country (New York Review Books Classics)
J.L. Carr, Michael Holroyd · 2000
A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village.<br/><br/>In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life. But summer ends, and with the work done, Birkin must leave. Now, long after, as he reflects on the passage of time and the power of art, he finds in his memories some consolation for all that has been lost.
Dandelion Wine: A Novel (Grand Master Editions)
Ray Bradbury · 1985
The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding—remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury. The only god living in Green Town, Illinois, that Douglas Spaulding knew of. The facts about John Huff, aged twelve, are simple and soon stated. • He could pathfind more trails than any Choctaw or Cherokee since time began. • Could leap from the sky like a chimpanzee from a vine. • Could live underwater two minutes and slide fifty yards downstream. • Could hit baseballs into apple trees, knocking down harvests. • Could jump six-foot orchard walls. • Ran laughing. • Sat easy. • Was not a bully. • Was kind. • Knew the words to all the cowboy songs and would teach you if you asked. • Knew the names of all the wild flowers and when the moon would rise or set and when the tides came in or out. He was, in fact, the only god living in the whole of Green Town, Illinois, during the twentieth century that Douglas Spaulding knew of. “[Ray] Bradbury is an authentic original.”—Time
The Story of a New Name: A Novel (Neapolitan Novels, 2)
Elena Ferrante · 2013
A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: “Everyone should read anything with Ferrante’s name on it” (The Boston Globe).<br/><br/>The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name continues the epic New York Times–bestselling literary quartet that has inspired an HBO series, and returns us to the world of Lila and Elena, who grew up together in post-WWII Naples, Italy.<br/><br/>In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her entrée into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighborhood that she so often finds stifling. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila, and the pressure to excel is at times too much for Elena. Yet the two young women share a complex and evolving bond that is central to their emotional lives and a source of strength in the face of life’s challenges. In these Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time” (The New York Times), gives us a poignant and universal story about friendship and belonging, a meditation on love and jealousy, freedom and commitment―at once a masterfully plotted page-turner and an intense, generous-hearted family saga.<br/><br/>“Imagine if Jane Austen got angry and you’ll have some idea of how explosive these works are.” ―The Australian<br/><br/>“Brilliant . . . captivating and insightful . . . the richness of her storytelling is likely to please fans of Sara Gruen and Silvia Avallone.” ―Booklist (starred review)
The Story of the Lost Child: A Novel (Neapolitan Novels, 4)
Elena Ferrante · 2015
The “stunning conclusion” to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age (Publishers Weekly, starred review).<br/><br/>The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila, who first met amid the shambles of postwar Italy. In this book, life’s great discoveries have been made; its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women’s friendship remains the gravitational center of their lives.<br/><br/>Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. But now, she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Yet, somehow, this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief.<br/><br/>“Lila is a magnificent character.” ―The Atlantic<br/><br/>“Everyone should read anything with Ferrante’s name on it.” ―The Boston Globe
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels Book 1)
Elena Ferrante · 2012
Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflicted friendship. This first novel in the series follows Lila and Elena from their fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence. <br/> <br/>Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between two women. <br/> <br/>--https://www.europaeditions.com/book/9781609458638/my-brilliant-friend
Three Summers (Penguin European Writers)
Margarita Liberaki · 2021
With a new introduction by Polly Samson, Sunday Times bestselling author of A THEATRE FOR DREAMERS<br/><br/>'That summer we bought big straw hats. Maria's had cherries around the rim, Infanta's had forget-me-nots, and mine had poppies as red as fire. . .'<br/><br/>Three Summers is a warm and tender tale of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War. Living in a ramshackle old house with their divorced mother are flirtatious, hot-headed Maria, beautiful but distant Infanta, and dreamy and rebellious Katerina, through whose eyes the story is mostly observed. Over three summers, the girls share and keep secrets, fall in and out of love, try to understand the strange ways of adults and decide what kind of adults they hope to become.<br/><br/>'The sun has disappeared from books these days... You are one of those who pass it on' Albert Camus to Margarita Liberaki<br/><br/>'A leisurely, large-hearted coming-of-age novel, earthy and innocent, nostalgic and beautifully rendered' Kirkus<br/><br/>'A dreamy, cinematic tapestry of Greek village life' NPR
The Kites
Romain Gary · 2019
Romain Gary’s bittersweet final masterpiece is “epic and empathetic” (BBC) and “one of his best” (The New York Times) The Kites begins with a young boy, Ludo, coming of age on a small farm in Normandy under the care of his eccentric kite-making Uncle Ambrose. Ludo’s life changes the day he meets Lila, a girl from the aristocratic Polish family that owns the estate next door. In a single glance, Ludo falls in love forever; Lila, on the other hand, disappears back into the woods. And so begins Ludo’s adventure of longing, passion, and love for the elusive Lila, who begins to reciprocate his feelings just as Europe descends into World War II. After Germany invades Poland, Lila and her family go missing, and Ludo’s devotion to saving her from the Nazis becomes a journey to save his love, his loved ones, his country, and ultimately himself. Filled with unforgettable characters who fling all they have into the fight to keep their hopes—and themselves—alive, The Kites is Romain Gary’s poetic call for resistance in whatever form it takes. A war hero himself, Gary embraced and fought for humanity in all its nuanced complexities, in the belief that a hero might be anyone who has the courage to love and hope.
