by Rebecca West • Introduction by Andrea Barrett

In this 1957 best seller, Rebecca West transmuted her own volatile childhood into the story of the talented Aubrey children whose lives have long been clouded by their father's genius for instability. Mrs. Aubrey is something of a high-strung eccentric herself. Still, living on the edge holds the promise of the unexpected, and the Aubreys, who encounter furious poltergeists, turn up hidden masterpieces, and come to the aid of a murderess, will find that they have adventure to spare.
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'Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass. So begins this fine and funny adventure set in the backlands of modern Turkey, in which a group of highly unusual travel companions encounters potion-dealing sorcerers, recalcitrant policemen, and Billy Graham on tour with a busload of Southern evangelists. The pages of this humorous novel, though, are shadowed by heartbreak—as the narrator confronts the specters of ancient empires, religious turmoil, and memories of lost love.

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by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Introduction by Alison Lurie

When her father dies, Lolly is sent off to her officious brother and his pious wife. The years pass; she feels lonely and out of place until, impulsively, she strikes out on her own and begins to recognize the power that will transform her life once and for all.
"This is the witty, eerie, tender but firm life history of a middle-class Englishwoman who politely declines to make the expected connection with the opposite sex and becomes a witch instead."—John Updike
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Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This, her masterpiece, is a macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel revealing the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Great Granny Webster herself is a fabulous monster, the chilliest of matriarchs, presiding over a landscape of ruined lives.

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By Colette • Introduction by Judith Thurman

Colette herself considered this her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography." This guided tour of the erotic netherworld begins in the darkness and languor of a fashionable opium den. It continues as a series of unforgettable encounters with men and, especially, women whose lives have been permanently transfigured by the strange power of desire. This book stands out as one of modern literature's subtlest reckonings not only with the varieties of sexual experience, but with the always unlikely nature of love.
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by Elizabeth Hardwick • Introduction by Geoffrey O'Brien

In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. This is not only Elizabeth Hardwick's finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years." [An] extraordinary and haunting book....The result is less a 'story about' or 'of' a life than a shattered mediation on it...."—Joan Didion, The New York Times Book Review
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by Barbara Comyns • Introduction by Kathryn Davis

The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife's death, the vet takes up with a crass, needling woman who tries to refashion Alice in her own image. And yet as Alice retreats ever deeper into a dream world, she discovers an extraordinary secret power of her own.
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by Dorothy Baker • Introduction by Deborah Eisenberg

Cassandra's identical twin, Judith, is to be married to a nice young doctor and Cassandra (brilliant, nervewracked, gay, miserable) is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding. This entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events in which the heroine appears variously as conniving, pitiful, frenzied, and heartbroken—at once utterly impossible and tremendously sympathetic. First published in 1962, Cassandra at the Wedding is a book of enduring freshness,insight, and verve.
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