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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - CHINUA ACHEBE: Things Fall Apart
Chapter 2 - ERIC AMBLER: A Coffin for Dimitrios
Chapter 3 - KINGSLEY AMIS: Lucky Jim
Chapter 4 - LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS: The Education of Oscar Fairfax
Chapter 5 - RUSSELL BAKER: Growing Up
Chapter 6 - LOUIS BEGLEY: Wartime Lies
Chapter 7 - E. F. BENSON: Queen Lucia
Chapter 8 - MARY BRINGLE: Hacks at Lunch
Chapter 9 - TRUMAN CAPOTE: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Chapter 10 - WILLA CATHER: Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chapter 11 - RAYMOND CHANDLER: The Big Sleep
Chapter 12 - BRUCE CHATWIN: In Patagonia
Chapter 13 - WALTER VAN TILBERG CLARK: The Ox-Bow Incident
Chapter 14 - EVAN S. CONNELL: Mrs. Bridge
Chapter 15 - JOSEPH CONRAD: The Secret Agent
Chapter 16 - JILL KER CONWAY: The Road from Coorain
Chapter 17 - F. M. CORNFORD: Microcosmographia Academica: Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician
Chapter 18 - PATRICK DENNIS: Auntie Mame
Chapter 19 - MARIA DERMOûT: The Ten Thousand Things
Chapter 20 - EDWARD CAMERON DIMOCK: Mr. Dimock Explores the Mysteries of the East
Chapter 21 - HUGH DUNDAS: Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years
Chapter 22 - FREEMAN J. DYSON: The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet
Chapter 23 - BOB ELLIOTT AND RAY GOULDING: Write If You Get Work: The Best of Bob and Ray
Chapter 24 - RALPH WALDO EMERSON: “The American Scholar” and “Self-Reliance”
Chapter 25 - F. SCOTT FITZGERALD: The Great Gatsby
Chapter 26 - JANET FLANNER: Paris Was Yesterday: 1925–1939
Chapter 27 - E. M. FORSTER: Where Angels Fear to Tread
Chapter 28 - JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH: Name-Dropping
Chapter 29 - GRAHAM GREENE: Our Man in Havana
Chapter 30 - DASHIELL HAMMETT: The Maltese Falcon
Chapter 31 - HELENE HANFF: 84, Charing Cross Road
Chapter 32 - JOSEPH HANSEN: Fadeout
Chapter 33 - SEAMUS HEANEY: Beowulf
Chapter 34 - ERNEST HEMINGWAY: The Sun Also Rises
Chapter 35 - GEORGE V. HIGGINS: The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Chapter 36 - PATRICIA HIGHSMITH: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Chapter 37 - JAMES HILTON: Lost Horizon
Chapter 38 - SHIRLEY JACKSON: The Haunting of Hill House
Chapter 39 - HENRY JAMES: Washington Square
Chapter 40 - SARAH ORNE JEWETT: The Country of the Pointed Firs
Chapter 41 - JAMES JOYCE: Dubliners
Chapter 42 - GEORGE KATES: The Years That Were Fat
Chapter 43 - YASUNARI KAWABATA: Snow Country
Chapter 44 - ALVIN KERNAN: Crossing the Line
Chapter 45 - RUDYARD KIPLING: Kim
Chapter 46 - WILLIAM KOTZWINKLE: The Bear Went Over the Mountain
Chapter 47 - PÄR LAGERKVIST: Barabbas
Chapter 48 - LAURIE LEE: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Chapter 49 - ALDO LEOPOLD: A Sand County Almanac
Chapter 50 - C. S. LEWIS: Out of the Silent Planet
Chapter 51 - SIMON LEYS: Chinese Shadows
Chapter 52 - A. J. LIEBLING: Between Meals
Chapter 53 - JACK LONDON: The Call of the Wild
Chapter 54 - JOHN D. MACDONALD: The Deep Blue Good-By
Chapter 55 - JERRE MANGIONE: Mount Allegro
Chapter 56 - THOMAS MANN: Death in Venice
Chapter 57 - W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM: The Razor's Edge
Chapter 58 - WILLIAM MAXWELL: They Came Like Swallows
Chapter 59 - CHARLES MCGLINCHEY: The Last of the Name
Chapter 60 - PETER BRIAN MEDAWAR: Advice to a Young Scientist
Chapter 61 - WALTER MOSLEY: Devil in a Blue Dress
Chapter 62 - JOHN MUIR: My First Summer in the Sierra
Chapter 63 - R. K. NARAYAN: The English Teacher
Chapter 64 - ERIC NEWBY: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Chapter 65 - JOHN NICOL: The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner
Chapter 66 - PATRICK O'BRIAN: The Unknown Shore
Chapter 67 - GEORGE ORWELL: Animal Farm
Chapter 68 - C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON: Parkinson's Law
Chapter 69 - KATHERINE ANNE PORTER: Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Chapter 70 - CHARLES PORTIS: True Grit
Chapter 71 - BARBARA PYM: Excellent Women
Chapter 72 - THOMAS PYNCHON: The Crying of Lot 49
Chapter 73 - ERICH MARIA REMARQUE: All Quiet on the Western Front
Chapter 74 - ADELE CROCKETT ROBERTSON: The Orchard
Chapter 75 - PHILIP ROTH: Portnoy's Complaint
Chapter 76 - W. C. SELLAR AND R. J. YEATMAN: 1066 and All That
Chapter 77 - VIKRAM SETH: The Golden Gate
Chapter 78 - ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER: The Magician of Lublin
Chapter 79 - DAVA BENSON: Longitude
Chapter 80 - ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Chapter 81 - WALLACE STEGNER: Remembering Laughter
Chapter 82 - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: Treasure Island
Chapter 83 - FRANK SULLIVAN: Frank Sullivan Through the Looking Glass
Chapter 84 - MALBA TAHAN: The Man Who Counted
Chapter 85 - WILFRED THESIGER: Arabian Sands
Chapter 86 - DYLAN THOMAS: Under Milk Wood
Chapter 87 - J. R. R. TOLKIEN: The Hobbit
Chapter 88 - RICHARD TREGASKIS: Guadalcanal Diary
Chapter 89 - ROBERT H. VAN GULIK: The Chinese Gold Murders
Chapter 90 - JULES VERNE: Around the World in Eighty Days
Chapter 91 - JAMES D. WATSON: The Double Helix
Chapter 92 - EVELYN WAUGH: The Loved One
Chapter 93 - GLENWAY WESCOTT: The Pilgrim Hawk
Chapter 94 - NATHANAEL WEST: The Day of the Locust
Chapter 95 - EDITH WHARTON: Madame de Treymes
Chapter 96 - E. B. WHITE: Charlotte's Web
Chapter 97 - LAURA INGALLS WILDER: On the Way Home and West From Home
Chapter 98 - THORNTON WILDER: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Chapter 99 - P. G. WODEHOUSE: Something Fresh
Chapter 100 - ANN WROE: A Fool and His Money
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