1049a

Evelyn Waugh's most famous novel, recently filmed as a Hollywood blockbuster but remembered better by most of us in the more considered earlier TV rendition.

1063a

A novel set in the glittering world of New York high society in the 1870s, well known to Wharton and her friend Henry James.

1008

Patrick White's massive novel of Australian geographical exploration in the 19th C. A study in depth of courage, love, betrayal and violent death...suddenly Australia actually begins to exist as a nation!

1053a

Oscar Wilde's most famous play and the one most loved by amateur and professional actors alike. First produced in the year of Wilde's arrest, it contains many of the themes which fascinated him...especially that of the double life.

1030

1927…and an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values. A simple depiction of a family holiday? Infinitely more!

1030a

Woolf's strangest work. It is her exploration of the androgyny which she longed for and which would, she hoped, free her as a creative writer from the terrible inhibitions of the need to be the 'Angel in the House'.

1031

Sex and syphilis, prostitution and corruption, gambling and self-destruction! Why should we read Zola’s novel about the decadent Second Empire?