The Collected Novels Volume One
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The Collected Novels Volume One: Her Victory, The Widower’s Son, and Travels in Nihilon
By Alan SillitoeGoing up a narrow street from the sea, rain drove against her mackintosh. For half the way, till wind blew it clear, a stench of mothballs enveloped her, because the coat came from the hall cupboard and had not been worn for months.
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The Collected Novels Volume One: Notes from an Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man
By Patrick GaleThis exquisite study is one of several drawings, from the life and from magazines, which the teenage Kelly included in ... (From the collection of Mrs Josh MacArthur) The young porter glanced at the coins she had dropped in his hand.
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The Collected Novels Volume One: The Group, The Company She Keeps, and Birds of America
By Mary McCarthyOn the walls were framed reproductions of Georgia O'Keeffe's vulval flowers and of details from murals by Diego Rivera and Orozco and framed Stieglitz photographs of New York City slum scenes. There were two steel lamps with improvised ...
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The Collected Novels Volume One: Jumping the Queue, The Camomile Lawn, and Harnessing Peacocks
By Mary Wesley'Oh, Daddy, he's clever, grown a beard, it says here, a red beard.' 'Have they arrested him, dear?' 'No, Mummy, it says here one of his best friends recognized him.' 'Can't be his best friends if he tells the police.
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The Collected Novels Volume One: The Long View, The Sea Change, The Beautiful Visit, and After Julius
By Elizabeth Jane HowardHe was very intent on his kite; his eyes were screwed up with the sky and staring cold; his dark hair ruffled up by the wind into a square crest. He had a large Adam's apple which reminded me of five notes and then down a fifth on a ...
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The Collected Novels Volume One: This Sporting Life and Flight into Camden
By David StoreyClutching the carrier, I shout 'Happy Christmas' from the door and follow Wade through the damp coldness of the tunnel beneath the stand. 'Of course,' he's saying, 'if you have to have dentures like Dai seems to think, the club'll pay.
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The Collected Novels Volume One: Property Of, The Drowning Season, Fortune's Daughter, and At Risk
By Alice HoffmanEsther the Black looked past him, at the huge, old apartment littered with the back-up band, The Quick and the Mad; she hesitated. “Esther,” he assured her, “you have picked the perfect night for a visit. Tonight I am famous.
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The Collected Novels Volume One: Harvest Home, Lady, All That Glitters
By Thomas TryonIt's not more than fifteen feet from the railing to the river, and if a person was determined to commit suicide that's not what you'd call a ... Which somehow in the minds of Cornwall Coombe lay at the hands of Gracie Everdeen.
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The Collected Novels Volume One: The Life and Loves of a She Devil, The Hearts and Lives of Men, and...
By Fay Weldon... I have all, and he has none. As I was, so he is now. Good. Life is very pleasant. I sit up in bed in the morning and look out over the landscape. Some people say I've ruined it, with artificial copses and granite-fountained fish ponds ...
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The Collected Novels Volume One: Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair, and Our Man in Havana
By Graham GreeneHis extraordinary reputation rests largely on these three superb novels, all of which have been adapted into classic films.