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The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950

By Carmen Callil & Colm Toibin
June 1999
ISBN: 0-330-34182-0
287 p.
$27.50 Cloth

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The authors have selected what they believe are the very best novels written since 1950 from England, the United States, India, Canada, Australia, Africa and Scotland. Each novel is summarized In addition to the 200 top novels, the authors also provide listings of the best written autobiographies and biographies since 1950, the best 20 poetry collections, source information about the novelists, and literary prize and award winners.

Novels and novelists featured include:

Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
James Baldwin - Go Tell it on the Mountain
Samuel Beckett - The Molloy Trilogy
Saul Bellow - Herzog
Anthony Burgess - Earthly Powers
John Cheever - Falconer
Agatha Christie - A Murder is Announced
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
William Faulkner - The Reivers
Frederick Forsyth - The Day of the Jackal
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker
Stephen King - Misery
Mary McCarthy - The Group
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Iris Murdoch - The Nice and the Good
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire
Mordecai Richler - St. Urbain's Horseman
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
Tom Wolfe - The Bonfire of the Vanities


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