one of england's best fiction writers. a writer of formidable technique and intelligence. --the san francisco chronicle.
i enjoy brookner's works so much i was glad to find one i hadn't read in a used bookshop. this copy was inscribed from susan to claudia
claudia:
a short novel
for a long afternoon...
some summer
on the sunporch
soon.
ah, for the luxury
of that,
well-deserved!
susan
may 1990 spring.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
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My Classic Fiction Book List -Partial List
- Austen, Jane: (Complete Works)
- Balzac: Cousin Bette/ Eugenie Grandet / Cousin Pons
- Best Russian Short Stories
- Boyle, TC: Short Works
- Brennan, Maeve : Short Works, 1 Novella
- Bronte, Emily, Ann, Jane (Complete Works)
- Brookner, Anita ( Complete Works)
- Cather, Willa (Complete Works)
- Chekov: Short Works
- David Copperfield (Dickens)
- Dickens:A Tale of Two Cities
- Dickens:Great Expectations
- Dickens:Nicholas Nickelby
- Dickens:Our Mutual Friend
- Dickens:The Old Curiosity Shop
- Doyle, Roddy (some novels, memoir)
- Drabble, Margaret (4 Novels)
- Drieser, Theodore (Complete Works)
- Fitzgerald, F.Scott (Most Novels & short works)
- Hardy, Thomas (Complete Works)
- Hemingway, Short stories
- Hemingway: The Old Man in the Sea
- Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
- Hugo: Les Miserables/Hunchback Of ND
- James, Henry: Daisy Miller
- James, Henry: In The Cage
- James, Henry: Portrait of a Lady
- James, Henry: The Golden Bowl
- James, Henry: What Maisy Knew
- James, Henry: Wings of a Dove
- James, Henry:The Ambassadors
- James, Henry; The Bostonians
- Kerouac: Dharma Bums
- Kerouac: On The Road
- Kerouac: The Subterraneans
- Kerouac: Tristessa
- Lardner,Ring:Short Works
- Larsen: Quicksand
- Lewis, Sinclair: Arrowsmith
- Lewis, Sinclair: Free Air
- Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street
- Lewis, Sinclair: The Job
- MacGill, Patrick (Complete works)
- Mackin, Walter (novels)
- Maupassant: Short Works, novels
- McGahern, John (novels of)
- McNulty, John (Short Works)
- Norris, Frank: McTeague
- O'Brien, Edna (3 Novels)
- O'Donnell, Paeder : Novels of
- O. Henry
- Potok, Chaim (4 novels/1 non fiction)
- Salinger, JD : Nine Stories
- Salinger: Franny & Zooey
- Salinger: Raise High the Roofbeams
- Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
- Sinclair, Lewis: Dodsworth
- Sinclair, Lewis: Elmer Gantry
- Sinclair, Upton: King Coal
- Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle
- Steinbeck, John: Sweet Thursday
- Steinbeck: Winter of our Discontent
- Steinbeck: Cannery Row
- Steinbeck: East of Eden
- Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
- Theroux, Paul (3 Novels )
- Toibin, Colm: (Novels of)
- Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy: Short Works
- Turgenev (2 novels)
- Twain: T Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi
- Vonnegut: Early Works (1950s-60s)
- Wharton, Edith: Novels of/Short Stories
- Women & Fiction (Edit. Cahill)
- Zola, Emile ( 10 novels)