A Passage To India

E.M. Forster

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Classic

<p>In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele, describing the latter as 'murder, not only to the troops, but to their singing faiths and hopes'. In his compassionate yet unsentimental prose, he tells of the heroism and despair found among the officers. Blunden's poems show how he found hope in the natural landscape; the only thing that survives the terrible betrayal enacted in the Flanders fields.</p>

Modern Classics Undertones Of War

BLUNDEN, Edmund

Poetry

<p>In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called the Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon.".</p>

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

G.K., Chesterton

Contemporary

The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Modern Classics)

Ford, Ford Madox

Literary

Modern Classics Darkness At Noon

KOESTLER, ARTHUR

In a London of the future, the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy have worn the human spirit down to the point where it can barely stand. When a pint-sized clerk named Auberon Quinn is randomly selected as head of state, he decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement. One man, Adam Wayne, takes the new order of things seriously, organizing a Notting Hill army to fight invaders from other neighborhoods. At first his project baffles everyone, but eventually his dedication proves infectious, with delightful results. First published in 1904, The Napoleon of Notting Hill was Chesterton's first novel. It has been called the best first novel by any author in the twentieth century. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press

Modern Classics Napoleon Of Notting Hill

CHESTERTON, G.K.

Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Doré, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called flats in England and America. There is something entirely Gargantuan in the idea of economising spacng houses on top of each other, front doors and all. And in the chaos and complexity of those perpendicular streets anything may dwell or happen, and it is in one of them, I believe, that the inquirer may find the offices of the Club of Queer Trades. It may be thought at the first glance that the name would attract and startle the passer-by, but nothing attracts or startles in these dim immense hives. The passer-by is only looking for his own melancholy destination, the Montenegro Shipping Agency or the London office of the Rutland Sentinel, and passes through the twilight passages as one passes through the twilight corridors of a dream. If the Thugs set up a Strangers' Assassination Company in one of the great buildings in Norfolk Street, and sent in a mild man in spectacles to answer inquiries, no inquiries would be made. And the Club of Queer Trades reigns in a great edifice hidden like a fossil in a mighty cliff of fossils.   The nature of this society, such as we afterwards discovered it to be, is soon and simply told.

Modern Classics Club Of Queer Trades

The range and depth of Lawrence's sensibility is demonstrated in this selection of essays, many of which distil the ideas and experience found in his novels. He introduces his paintings, ponders on the nature of democracy, discusses "The Forsyte Saga" and portrays the people and places he saw on his travels in Italy, Germany and Mexico. The volume also includes a prophetic letter, written in 1924, in which Lawrence anticipates the rise of Nazism.

Selected Essays

LAWRENCE, D.H.

St. Mawr / The Virgin and the Gipsy

Modern Classics Rescue: A Romance Of The Shallows

Conrad/Joseph

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