Describes the domestic obligations, social limitations, and economic factors which impede literary creativity in women.

The Centenary Edition : 1888-1988.

"A verse play with a contemporary setting"--Cover subtitle.

A book of humor and satire covers topics from baseball to Macbeth.

This pioneering novel explores a young man's journey from boyhood to the warfront by the author of Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Jacob Flanders is a young man typical of his generation-like so many who would go on to face death in the battlefields of the Great War. In this probing, elegiac book, his life is recounted through the private memories and sentiments of those who knew him. We meet Jacob as the boy who preoccupies his mother's thoughts;...

Gordon Comstock refuses to be corrupted by the world around him and chooses a low paying job and a life of poverty over prosperity and family responsibilities; however, the more he struggles against the money god, the more he realizes that it is a futile journey.

The narrator recalls the Finzi-Continis, a wealthy cultured Italian Jewish family whose daughter he loved and whose son was his friend. The assimilation of the Jews into Italian society is abruptly halted by fascism, and anti-Semitism destroys the family.

Modern Man in Search of a Soul is the perfect introduction to the theories and concepts of one of the most original and influential religious thinkers of the twentieth century.

In one lifetime we have many chances to get it right Grange Copeland, a deeply conflicted and struggling tenant farmer in the Deep South of the 1930s, leaves his family and everything he's ever known to find happiness and respect in the cold cities of the North. This misadventure, his "second life," proves a dismal failure that sends him back where he came from to confront his now-grown-up son's disastrous relationships with his own family, including...