The Modern Library - The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950

The indispensable guide for every readerAlarmed by the ignorance often displayed towards our literary past, Carmen Callil and Colm Toibin have chosen the 194 books since 1950 that they consider to be the best. Some familiar names - Naipaul, Updike, Bellow and Nabokov - rub shoulders with some real surprises like Mario Puzo and Thomas Harris. Witty, controversial and written to encourage reading, no household should be without The Modern Library

About the author

Colm Toíbín , 1955 in Irland geboren, veröffentlichte mehrere Sachbücher. Toíbíns Bücher wurden mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Er gilt als einer der interessantesten englischsprachigen Schriftsteller der mittleren Generation.

Product details

• Authors: Carmen Callil, Colm Toibin, Colm Toíbín
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2000
• EAN: 9780330376570
• ISBN: 978-0-330-37657-0
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Picador Paperbacks; Picador Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Irische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)