
100 One-Night Reads
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• Russell Baker • Willa Cather • Raymond Chandler • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Graham Greene • Edith Hamilton • Dashiell Hammett • Helene Hanff • Ernest Hemingway • Patricia Highsmith • Shirley Jackson • Henry James • W. Somerset Maugham • Mary McCarthy • Walter Mosley • Vladimir Nabokov • Patrick O'Brian • Barbara Pym • Phillip Roth • Vikram Seth • Isaac Bashevis Singer • C. P. Snow • Dylan Thomas • Evelyn Waugh • Edith Wharton • Laura Ingalls Wilder • Virginia Woolf
Each selection contains an entertaining discussion of what makes the book special, from an adventurous writing style to a unique sense of humor. The Majors also share insights about the authors and literary anecdotes, as well as recommend other gems on a similar subject or by the same author.
A literary companion to relish and refer to again and again, 100 One-Night Reads is a masterpiece in its own right!
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- Intro
- 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
- About The Authors
- Copyright
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