The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad (Pelican)

Author	Virginia Woolf
ISBN	0141184272

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's...

Author	Saul Bellow
ISBN	0142437298

This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life steadily disintegrates around him - he has failed as a writer and teacher, as a father, and has lost the affection of his wife to his best friend - Herzog sees himself as a survivor, both of his private disasters...

Author	Joseph Conrad
ISBN	1551111721

Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they...

Author	William Golding
ISBN	0156443791

When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifying things that had never happened before. Inexplicable sounds and smells; new, unimaginable creatures half glimpsed through the leaves. What the people...

Author	Linda Hutcheon
ISBN	0415007062

I absolutely love both of Hutcheon's books I've read so far, in fact I keep returning to A Theory of Parody throughout my own work. But A Poetics of Postmodernism has a broader focus and will almost certainly become my go-to text for Hutcheon references in future.

Essentially Hutcheon's argument...

Author	Seán O'Casey
ISBN	0573014094

This is the fifth play O’Casey wrote, but the first to be performed. It is set in 1920, during the Irish War for Independence, and tells the story of thirty-year-old poet and tenement dweller Donal Devoren. His fellow tenants have decided he is an IRA gunman in hiding, they treat him with respect...

Author	Saul Bellow
ISBN	0140189351

What happens if you are caught between two commitments?
If you have time to look at the world from an unoccupied position?
What will you see?
What will you discover of our common humanity?
Are you still engaged in the questions your generation asks, if you are not actively participating?
Can...