Best of
British-Literature

1983

P. G. Wodehouse: Five Complete Novels


P.G. Wodehouse - 1983
    Two feature the supremely popular Bertie Wooster and his butler, Jeeves. Includes The Return of Jeeves, Bertle Wooster Sees It Through, Spring Fever, The Butler Did It, and The Old Reliable.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Great Illustrated Classics)


Malvina G. Vogel - 1983
    The world's best-loved children's stories set in large type for easy reading.-- Over 100 illustrations in each book

The Stories of William Trevor


William Trevor - 1983
    

The Diaries of Jane Somers: The Diary of a Good Neighbor and If The Old Could


Doris Lessing - 1983
    These two novels show Lessing returning to an earlier narrative style with fresh power.

The Collected Stories


Dylan Thomas - 1983
    A highpoint of the collection is Thomas's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, a vivid collage of memories from his Swansea childhood that combines the lyricism of his poetry with the sparkle and sly humor of Under Milk Wood. Also here is the fiction from Quite Early One Morning, a collection planned by Thomas shortly before his death.Altogether there are more than forty stories, providing a rich and varied literary feast and showing Dylan Thomas in all his intriguing variety-somber fantasist, joyous word-spinner, comedian of smalltown Wales. The book includes an entertaining, informative reflection on Thomas by another Welsh poet and storyteller, Leslie Norris, as well as a brief listing of publication details by Professor Walford Davies, editor of Dylan Thomas: Early Prose Works.After the fair --Tree --True story --Enemies --Dress --Visitors --Vest --Burning baby --Orchards --End of the river --Lemon --Horse's ha --School for witches --Mouse and the woman --Prospect of the sea --Holy six --Prologue to an adventure --Map of love --In the direction of the beginning --Adventure from a work in progress --Portrait of the artist as a young dog: Peaches --Visit to Grandpa's --Patricia, Edith and Arnold --Fight --Extraordinary little cough --Just like little dogs --Where Tawe flows --Who do you wish was with us? --Old Garbo --One warm Saturday --Adventures in the skin trade: Fine beginning --Plenty of furniture --Four lost souls --Quite early one morning --Child's Christmas in Wales --Holiday memory --Crumbs of one man's year --Return journey --Followers --Story --Appendix: early stories: Brember --Jarley's --In the garden --Gaspar, Melchior, Balthsar --List of sources

Look at Me


Anita Brookner - 1983
    A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered.

Waterland


Graham Swift - 1983
    Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy.

Four Dolls


Rumer Godden - 1983
    And their stories are wonderful." Nancy WillardImpunity Jane--a china doll who goes adventuring with Joe and his gang. What will happen when the gang finds out Gideon stole her?The Fairy Doll--as Elizabeth's life changes for the better she begins to belive her doll is the cause. But is it?The Story of Holly and Ivy--Holly a doll, wished for a little girl. Ivy, a little girl, wished for a doll. Will their wishes come true?Candy Floss--Jack is heartbroken when Candy Floss, his good-luck doll, is taken. Will he

The Guide to Supernatural Fiction


E.F. Bleiler - 1983
    "a full description of 1,775 books"

The Ice Monkey and Other Stories


M. John Harrison - 1983
    

Haphazard House


Mary Wesley - 1983
    When eleven-year-old Lisa Fuller and her younger brother Josh buy a house in the country with their winnings from a horse race, their whole family encounters strange and wonderful chaos in their new home.

The Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan 1


W.S. Gilbert - 1983
    

Landscape with Figures: Selected Prose Writings


Richard Jefferies - 1983
    Trekking across the English countryside, he recorded his responses to everything from the texture of an owl's feather and 'noises in the air' to the grinding hardship of rural labour. This superb selection of his essays and articles shows a writer who is brimming with intense feeling, acutely aware of the land and those who work on it, and often ambivalent about the countryside. Who does it belong to? Is it a place, an experience or a way of life? In these passionate and idiosyncratic writings, almost all our current ideas and concerns about rural life can be found.