by Joyce Cary • Introduction by Brad Leithauser

The Horse's Mouth, the final and most celebrated volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, is perhaps the finest novel ever written about an artist. Its painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction.Is he a great artist? a has-been? or a drunken ne'er-do-well? As he criss-crosses London in search of money and inspiration, the world we see through his eyes is both an outrage and a place of terrible beauty.
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Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of 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. This spellbinding story was the inspiration for the brilliant Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates.

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by Ivan Turgenev • Introduction by Charlotte Hobson

Turgenev was the most liberal-spirited and unqualifiedly humane of all the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, and in Virgin Soil, his biggest and most ambitious work, he sought to balance his deep affection for his country with his growing apprehensions about its future. This is at once a love story, a bitterly funny satire, and, perhaps most movingly, a heartfelt celebration of beauty of the Russian countryside in which one of the world's finest novelists confronts the enduring question of the place of happiness in a political world.
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The dreamlike action of this masterpiece begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late-nineteenth-century Jamaica before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a crew of down-at-the-heel pirates. A best seller when it was first published in 1929, A High Wind in Jamaica was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the one hundred best novels of the twentieth century.

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In this poetic novel, a veteran of the Great War arrives in a remote Yorkshire village where he is to restore a medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, he finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life.

"Carr's blessedly small tale of lost love is also a small hymn about art and the compensating joy of the artist."—The New Yorker

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by Glenway Wescott • Introduction by Michael Cunningham

This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Tower, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris, when a well-heeled, itinerant Irish couple drops in. A work of classical elegance and concision, this beautifully crafted story is also a poignant evocation of the implacable power of love.
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Searingly hot in summer, bitterly cold in winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Arina Petrovna rules over her servants and family with an iron hand—until she loses power to her son Porphyry, one of the most memorable monsters in all world literature.

"The book is a classic in its own country [Russia] and it is easy to see why." —The Spectator

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The hero is a child of Hollywood, and once his life was a glittery dream. His father starred in Westerns. His mother was a goddess of the silver screen. But his parents' careers have crashed, and their marriage has broken up. And their teenage son? How he struggles both to keep faith with his family and to get by himself makes for a classic, comic coming-of-age story.

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