Le Pere Goriot - Prijzen

The Golden Bowl

Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the ''major phase'' of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelations...

Points of Origin

Diao Dou's short stories perform a kind of high-wire literary acrobatics; each one executes an immaculate mid-air transition, from closely observed social realism to surrealist parody, and back again....

Ulysses

A History of Stone and Steel

When Paul Keppel learns that his fanatical, fire-and-brimstone-preaching grandfather is dying from brain cancer, he sees his own chronic headaches as a sign from above that he too has a very short tim...